Ale
| 1. Cancer Ale. | 1710 |
Take roots of Spanish Angelica, Burdock, Filipendula, each 4 ounces; Elecampane 2 ounces, Gentian, Virginy Snake-root, each 1 ounce; Herb Robert, Ragwort, Sage, each 4 handfuls; Scordium, Rue, each 2 ...
| 2. Cancer Ale. | 1710 |
Take guaiacum 4 ounces; Sassaphras, roots of Sarsaparil, Sharp-pointed Docks, Filipendula, Hounds-tongue, and Walnut-tree rind, each 2 ounces; Herb Robert, Arch-angel, each 4 handfuls; Millipedes 1 pi...
| A Sweetening Scorbutick Ale. | 1710 |
Take Pine (or Firr) tops cut 4 handfuls; boil them in 5 gallons of very strong Wort to 3 gallons and a half; when its tunned up, pour into it the juices of Brooklime, Water-cresses, Dandelion, Cleaver...
| Ale Against Scrophulae. | 1710 |
Take Chips of Guaiacum, Sassaphras, Walnut-tree rinds, roots of sharp pointed Dock, Filipendula and Hounds-Tongue, each 2 ounces; Herb Robert, Arch-Angel, each 4 handfuls; Raisins of the sun stoned 1 ...
| Ale of the Woods. | 1710 |
Take Guaiacum, Sassaphras, each 2 ounces; yellow and red Sanders, Ivory, Harts-horn, Sarsa and China, each 1 ounce; Liquorice, Anniseed, Juniper berries, each 2 ounces; Raisins half a pound; Antimony ...
| An Extemporary Scorbutic Ale. | 1710 |
Take midling Ale 1 quart; Spirit of Scurvy grass 2 drams; Juniper berries 1 dram; Sweet fennel seed, Liquorice, each half a dram; Raisins 2 drams; keep it in a glass bottle. To these may be added Hors...
| Antimonial Ale. | 1710 |
Take of the best Hungarian Antimony (grosly powder'd, and tied up in a rag) 1 pound, Fumitory and Agrimony, each 4 handfuls; put them into a bag, which hang into 4 gallons of midling Ale, after it hat...
| Apperient Ale. | 1710 |
Take roots of Succory, Male-fern, Liquorice, and the 5 opening roots, each 2 ounces; Harts-tongue, Liverwort, Ground-Ivy, Tamarisk-tops, each 2 handfuls; Juniper-berries, Sweet Fennel-seed, each 2 oun...
| Arthritic Ale. | 1710 |
Take Guaiacum, Sassaphras, each 1 ounce; Ground-pine, Germander, each 2 handfuls; boil in Wort (instead of Hops) from 6 to 4 gallons; into which hang the following bag of ingredients, to ferment.
| Astringent Ale. | 1710 |
Take Roots of Comfery, Solomon's Seal, each 8 ounces; boil them in 6 gallons of very strong Wort to 4;strain it off, and when you Tun it up pour into it Juice of Plantain and Yarrow, each 1 pint; hang...
| Berry Ale. | 1710 |
Take Berries of wild-briar (dried and bruised) half a pound, of Juniper 4 ounces, of Holly and Ivy, Seeds also of Daucus and sweet Fennel, each 1 ounce; Herbs of Marshmallows, Pellitory of the wall, C...
| Bitter Aromatic Ale. | 1710 |
Take dried Wormwood 4 handfuls, Roots of Calamus Aromaticus 1 ounce and half, Zedory 2 ounce, Spanish Angelica, Elecampane, Ginger, Galangale, Winters-bark, Cinnamon, seeds of Caraway and Coriander, e...
| Cephalic Ale. | 1710 |
Take shavings of Guaiacum and sassaphras, each 2 ounces; boil them (instead of Hops) in small Wort from 6 gallons to 4, into which hang the following bag.
| Chalybeate Ale. | 1710 |
Take filings of needles half a pound; roots of Bittersweet 1 pound, mash them well together in a marble mortar, and put them into a bag for 4 gallons.
| Chlorotic Ale. | 1710 |
Take Guaiacum, Sassaphras, each 2 ounces; roots of Madder, Smalage, Butchers-broom, Zedoary, each 4 ounces; Herb-Motherwort, Pennyroyal, Mugwort, each 4 handfuls; Feverfew 2 handfuls; Daucus seed 3 ou...
| Daucus Ale. | 1710 |
Take Daucus seed 6 ounces; Raisins 12 ounces; put them into a bag for 4 gallons.
| Diuretic Ale. | 1710 |
Take whole Mustard seed 4 ounces; put it into a quart of Ale; after 3 or 4 days begin it; and ever as you pour out a glass keep it filled up with fresh Ale; thus do as long as the seed has any strengt...
| Epileptic Ale | 1710 |
Take Male-Piony roots fresh gather'd, 4 ounces; Peacocks-Dung half a pound; Raisins 12 ounces; prepare for a bag for 2 gallons.
| Hydropic Ale. | 1710 |
Take Broom ashes (sifted from the Coals) half a pound; Roots of Horse-Radish 4 ounces; Orris, Calamus, Aromaticus, Elecampane, each 2 ounces; Guaiacum, Sassaphras, Juniper-berries, Daucus-seed, each 1...
| Hysteric Ale. | 1710 |
Take chips of Box wood (which the turners make) half a pound, Misseltoe minc'd pretty small, 4 handfuls; boil these in 6 gallons of new Wort to 4, and when you tun it up, hang it into the following in...
| Icteric Ale. | 1710 |
Take shavings of ivory 1 ounce, white Horehound 4 handfuls; boil in 6 gallons of new Wort to 4; into which hang the under written ingredients in a bag.
| Juniper Ale. | 1710 |
Take Juniper-berries (well bruis'd and broken) 4 ounces; Raisins half a pound; mix for 4 gallons.
| Pectoral Ale. | 1710 |
Take roots of China 4 ounces; Sarfa, Comfrey, Liquorice, each 2 ounces; Orris, Elecampane, each 1 ounce; Shavings of Ivory, Hartshorn, Sanders yellow and red, each half an ounce; Herbs Harts-tongue, W...
| Purging Ale for Children. | 1710 |
Take fine Rhubarb (cut into thin slices) 2 drams; Liquorice, Aniseed, each 2 scruples; Raisins stoned and shred 30 or 40: Put them into a glass bottle of Ale holding a quart.
| Purging Ale with Antimony. | 1710 |
Take roots of sharp-pointed Dock 8 ounces; Polypodium, Ellecampane, each 4 ounces; Sanders, yellow and red, Juniper-Berries, each 2 ounces; Caraway-seeds 1 ounce; Herbs Scabions 8 handfuls; Liver-wort...
| Purging Ale. | 1710 |
Take roots of sharp-pointed Dock 12 ounces; Polypodium 4 ounces; Horse-Radish 2 ounces; Herbs, Ground-Ivy, Water-Cresses, Brook-lime, Scurvy-Grass, each 2 handfuls; Sassaphras, Juniper-Berries, Corian...
| Purging Hydropic Ale. | 1710 |
Take roots of common Flower de Luce 4 ounces; Horse Radish 2 ounces; Elecampane, Squills, each 1 ounce; Mustard seed, Juniper-berries,sassaphras, each 2 ounces; Winters Cinnamon half an ounce; inner r...
| Ricket Ale. | 1710 |
Take roots of Osmond Royal (or for want of it, Male fern) Liquorice, Sassaphras, each 1 ounce, Bark of Ash and Ivy, each half an ounce; Tamarisk-tops, Harts tongue, each 4 handfuls; live Woodlice 250,...
| Splanchnic Ale. | 1710 |
Take Guaiacum, Sassaphras, each 2 ounces; boil them in water 1 gallon to 2 quarts; put the strained liquor into a cask with new strong Ale 3 gallons and a half; and hang a bag into it with the followi...
| Spleen Ale. | 1710 |
Take Barks of Tamarisk 4 ounces; of Capers and Ash-tree, Woods of Guaiacum, Sassaphras, each 1 ounce; Herbs of Agrimony 4 handfuls; Wormwood, Dodder, each 2 handfuls; cut and boil these in 6 gallons o...
| Warm Scorbutick Ale. | 1710 |
Take roots of sharp-pointed Dock half a pound; Horse-radish 2 ounces; Guaiacum 4 ounces; Juniper-berries, Orange peel, each 1 ounce; Winters bark, Mustard seed, Long pepper, Cloves, each 2 drams; Rais...
Bag
| A Aromatic Bag. | 1710 |
Take Cinnamon, Nutmeg, each half an ounce; Mace, Cloves, each two drams; powder all together grossly and sew up in a round bag. To these may be conveniently be added dry'd Spearmint 2 handfuls, Wormwo...
| A Bag for Relaxation of the Uvula. | 1710 |
Take Cummin Seed 2 ounces; Orris, long Pepper, each half an ounce; make a gross Powder for a Bag.
| A Bag for the Side. | 1710 |
Take Bay-berries, Seeds of Cummin, Fenugreek, and Camomile Flowers, each 1 handful; Bran, Salt, each 2 handfuls: This may serve to put into 2 Bags.
| A Bag for the Stomach. | 1710 |
Take dry'd Mint half an ounce; Wormwood, Thyme, Red Rose Flowers, each 2 drams; Balaustines, Spanish Angelica Root, Caraway Seed, Nutmeg, Mace, Cloves, each 1 dram; make a course Powder for a bag.
| A Cummin Bag. | 1710 |
Take Seeds of Cummin, Gromwel, each 2 ounces; Nigella 2 drams; Bay-Salt 6 drams; prapare for a Bag, which heat hot, and rub the Head with, and lay it hot upon the top of the Head.
Balsam
| Anodyne Balsam. | 1785 |
Take of white Spanish soap, one ounce; opium, unprepared, two drachms; rectified spirit of wine, nine ounces. Digest them together in a gentle heat for three days; then strain off the liquor, and add ...
| Balsam called Mirabile. | 1710 |
Take Frankincense 2 ounces; Mastick, Cloves, Gallingale, Mace, Cubebs, each half an ounce; Aloes Wood 1 ounces; powder and mix them with Honey half a pound; Venice Turpentine 1 pound, and Brandy, as m...
| Locatelli's Balsam. | 1785 |
Take of olive oil, one pint; Strasburg turpentine and yellow wax, of each half a pound; red saunders, six drachms. Melt the wax with some part of the oil over a gentle fire; then adding the remaining ...
| Nephritic Balsam. | 1710 |
Take Oil of sweet Almonds new drawn 4 ounces; Oil of white Poppy and Linseed new drawn, each 2 ounces, Oil of Nutmegs by expression half an ounce; Oil of Petre 5 drams; Balsam of Capivy 6 drams; Balsa...
| Scheffers Balsam. | 1710 |
Take Volatile Salt of Hartshorn and of Sal Armoniak, each 1 dram; Chymical Oil of Mace 1 scruple; highly rectify'd Spirit of Wine 1 ounce; Digest according to Art.
| The vulnerary Balsam. | 1785 |
Take of benzoin, powdered, three ounces; balsam of Peru, two ounces; hepatic aloes, in powder, half an ounce; rectified spirit of wine, two pints. Digest them in a gentle heat for three days, and then...
Bolus
| A Balsamic Bolus. | 1710 |
Take Conserve of red Roses, Lucatellus's Balsam, each half a dram; Balsam of Peru 3 drops, mix.
| A Bolus for a Bruise. | 1710 |
Take Sperma Ceti 1 scruple; Salt of Harthorn 5 grains; Balsam of Peru 5 drops;
| A Bolus of Cassia. | 1710 |
Take Pulp of Cassia fresh drawn 6 drams; Venice Turpentine (washed in Parsley Water) 3 drams; Powder of Rhubarb 1 scruple; Powder of Liquorice as much as wants to make it of a due consistence.
| A Chalybeate Bole. | 1710 |
Take Mynsichts extract of Mars half a scruple; Balm of Gilead 6 drops; Conserve of Roses 1 dram, mix.
| A common Purging Bolus. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Jalap from 1 scruple to half a dram; Scammony powder'd from 3 grains to 8; Calomel 15 grains; Oil of Aniseed 1 drop; Lenitive electuary as much as is fit to make it up with.
| A Cordial Bolus. | 1710 |
Take Powder of a Crabs-claw compound, Goa Stone, each half a scruple; Powdered Saffron 5 grains; make it up with Confectio Alkermes.
| A Hypochondriac Bolus. | 1710 |
Take Ens Veneris, Spikenard, each 7 grains and a half; Conserve of Borage Flowers 1 dram, mix.
| A Sudorific Bolus. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Virginia Snake root 15 grains; Venice Treacle half a dram; Oil of Nutmegs 2 drops; Liquid Laudanum 15 drops; Diacodium as much as wanting to make it up with.
| A Warm Bolus | 1710 |
Take running Mercury well cleansed 1 dram; grind it in a glass Mortar, with brown Sugar, 2 drams; 'till its Particles are so finely divided as to be invisible; towards the last dropping in 2 drops of ...
| A Yellow Bolus. | 1710 |
Take Rhubarb (not toasted, but grated fine) from 1 scruple to 2; Oil of Cinnamon 1 drop; Diascodium sufficient to make it up.
| An Hysteric Bolus. | 1710 |
Take Castor, Asa Foetida, each 1 scruple; Saffron 4 grains; Salt of Amber 6 grains; London Laudanum 2 grains; Oil of Amber 1 drop; Syrup of Mugwort, as much as suficeth for a Bolus, to be taken at res...
| Astringent Bolus. | 1785 |
Take of alum, in powder, fifteen grains; gum kino, five grains; syrup, a sufficient quantity to make a bolus.
| Bolus of Rhubarb and Mercury. | 1785 |
Take of the best rhubarb, in powder, from a scruple to half a drachm; of calomel, from four to six grains; simple syrup, a sufficient quantity to make a bolus.
| Diaphoretic Bolus. | 1785 |
Take of gum guaiacum, in powder, ten grains; flowers of sulphur and cream of tartar, of each one scruple; simple syrup, a sufficient quantity.
| Mercurial Bolus. | 1785 |
Take of calomel, six grains; conserve of roses, half a drachm. Make a bolus.
| Pectoral Bolus. | 1785 |
Take of sperma ceti, a scruple; gum ammoniac, ten grains; salt of hartshorn, six grains; simple syrup, as much as will make them into a bolus.
| Purging Bolus. | 1785 |
Take of jalap in powder, a scruple; cream of tartar, two scruples. Let them be rubbed together, and formed into a bolus, with simple syrup.
Broth
| 1. Broth of Crayfish. | 1710 |
Take 100 Crayfish, having pounded them alive in a Mortar, boil them in 2 quarts of Water to 1 quart and half a pint, adding towards the last 2 blades of Mace, 1 Nutmeg sliced, and old Malaga half a pi...
| 2. Broth of Crayfish. | 1710 |
Take the Tails of 20 Crayfish, Candied Eryngo roots 1 ounce; the bottom of a white Loaf; Raisins stoned 2 ounces; Liquorice 3 drams; boil all these in 3 pints of Water to 1 quart, and strain it.
| Broth for a Consumption. | 1710 |
Take Conserve of Red Roses 4 ounces; Comfrey root 2 ounces; Shavings of Harts-horn 1 ounce; Maiden Hair 1 handful; Sage of Jerusalem 2 handfuls; Plantain half a handful; Raisins of the Sun 2 ounces; D...
| Cock Broth. | 1710 |
Take candy'd Eryngo roots 2 ounces; Roots of China, Scorzonera, Currants and Dates, each 1 ounce; shavings of Harts- horn and Ivory, each half an ounce; the four greater cold Seeds, each 2 drams; Maid...
| Consummate Broth. | 1710 |
Take a Capon (pick'd, drawn, and cut into pieces) Sheeps Trotters and Calves Feet, each 4; Shavings of Harts-horn and Ivory, each half an ounce; yellow Sanders 3 drams; Dates 20; Raisins of the Sun st...
Cake
| Purging Cakes. | 1710 |
Take Sweet Almonds blanch'd 6 drams; power'd Jalap root 3 drams; Rosin of Jalap half a Dram; fine Sugar 10 drams; Oil of Cinnamon 3 drops; with Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth; make it up into little Cakes...
Cataplasm
| A Cataplasm for the Feet. | 1710 |
Take Venice Treacle 2 ounces; Mustard Seed, Grains of Paradise, each 1 ounce and half; Bay Salt 1 ounce; black Soap 2 ounces; Oil of Spike 2 scruples; Vinegar a quantity sufficient, mix all.
| A Cataplasm for Vomiting. | 1710 |
Take Quinces half a pound; having cut them in quarters; and taken out their Core and Seeds, Boil them in Vinegar 'till soft. then beat them to mash in a Mortar, and add powder'd Balaustines half an ou...
| A Cataplasm in a Quinsy. | 1710 |
Take Figs 4 ounces; Album Gracum half an ounce; Flower of Sulphur, long Pepper, each 1 dram; Brandy 2 ounces; Chymical oil of Wormwood 16 drops; Diacodium as much as will serve, beat them all in a Mor...
| A Cataplasm of Bitters. | 1710 |
Take Venice Treacle, Lupine Meal, each 3 drams; Wormseed 1 dram and a half; Species of Hiera picra half a dram; Chymical oil of Wormwood 16 drops; Juice of Tansey, enough to embody it it, mix.
| A Cataplasm of Eggs. | 1710 |
Take Yolks of Eggs boil'd hard 4; Oil of Amber 2 scruples; Linseed Oil as much as needful, mix them together in a Mortar.
| A Cataplasm of Herrings. | 1710 |
Take white Bryony Root new digged up (or if it be dried, then the powder of it) 2 ounces; black Soap 3 ounces; Pickled Herrings (or Anchovies) 4 ounces; Salt 1 ounce and half, mix.
| A Cataplasm of Webs. | 1710 |
Take Venice Turpentine 2 ounces; Juice of Plantain 1 ounce and half; Figs 3; the yellow pareing of Orange Rind 2 drams; Bole 1 dram and half; Soot half an once; Pigeons Dung 1 ounce and halfl large Sp...
| A Cataplasm with Cassia. | 1710 |
Take Pulp of Cassia 1 ounce; Elder Ointment 2 ounces; Sperma ceti half an ounce; Powder'd Agaric 1 dram and a half; mix all into a Cataplasm.
| A Cataplasm with Cummin. | 1710 |
Take Onions roasted under the Embers 1 ounce and a half; Saffron clip'd small with Scissars 15 grains; Oil of Amber 12 drops; powder'd Cummin Seed, Ointment of Marsh Mallows, each 3 drams, mix.
| A Cataplasm with Elder. | 1710 |
Take green Leaves (or, in the Winter time, inner Bark) of Elder 4 ounces; cut and boil them in Milk 'till soft; strain away the Milk, and to the Mash add soft Soap 1 ounce; spread it upon a double Clo...
| A Cataplasm with Fullers Earth. | 1710 |
Take crumb of white Bread 4 ounces, white Poppy-seed bruis'd 2 ounces; Boil in Milk; strain away the clear, to the remainder , add powder'd Fullers-Earth, Oil of Roses, each 2 ounces; oil of Mace by E...
| A Cataplasm with Juices. | 1710 |
Take Juices of Onions, Parsely, Smallage, Fennel, each 2 ounces; crumb of white Bread as much as will take it up, beat and mix in a Mortar.
| A Cataplasm with Orris. | 1710 |
Take Orris powder 1 ounce; Honey 3 ounces, or as much as serves, mix all.
| A Cataplasm with Poppy. | 1710 |
Take Red Roses dried and cut small 4 scruples; white Poppy- seeds bruis'd, Oil of Roses, each half an ounce; Barly Meal 1 ounce; Vinegar enough to temper it into a Consistence.
| A Cataplasm with Radish. | 1710 |
Take Roots of Horse Radish, Squills, each 2 ounces; Rue, Mustard Seed, Salt, each 1 ounce, black Soap 2 ounces; Vinegar as much as useful to beat it up with.
| A Cataplasm with Turneps. | 1710 |
Take Turneps bak'd in an Oven 8 ounces; Rue 4 handfuls; Mustard-seed 2 ounces; Oil of Juniper 2 drams; Nerve Ointment, as much as needful, when it is spread upon a Cloth sprinkle it with Powder of Eup...
| A Lateral Cataplasm. | 1710 |
Take Meal of Linseed 8 ounces; Fenugreek, Cummin, each 4 ounces; Linseed Oil as much as requireth, mix all in a Mortar.
| A Stomach Cataplasm. | 1710 |
Take Venice Treacle 6 drams, Cinnamon, Cloves powder'd, each 1 dram; Chymical Oil of Mint 6 drops; Oil of Wormwood 2 drops; beat it up with a just quantity if Vinegar.
| Discutient Cataplasm. | 1785 |
Take of barley-meal, six ounces; fresh hemlock leaves bruised, two ounces; vinegar, a sufficient quantity. Boil the meal and hemlock in the vinegar for a little, and then add two drachms of the sugar ...
| Ripening Cataplasm. | 1785 |
Take of white lily root, four ounces; fat figs and raw onions, bruised, of each one ounce; yellow basilicum ointment, two ounces; gum galbanum, half an ounce; linseed meal, as much as necessary. Boil ...
Caudle
| 1. A Restorative Caudle. | 1710 |
Take the Pith of an ox's back out of its Skin half a pound; Rose Water and Tent Wine, each 1 pint; Dates minced small 10; Raisins of the Sun stoned 24; Cinnamon 2 drams: Let it stand stewing in Balneo...
| 2. Restorative Caudle. | 1710 |
Take Tent Wine 2 quarts; White Sanders, Acorn Cups, each half an ounce; candy'd Eryngo Roots, Dates, Figs, each 4 ounces; Nutmegs sliced thin half an ounce; Archangel 2 handfuls; boil to 1 quart, stra...
Clyster
| Carminative Clyster. | 1785 |
Take of camomile flowers, an ounce; anise-seeds, half an ounce. Boil in a pint and a half of water to one pint.
| Emollient Clyster. | 1785 |
Take of linseed tea and new milk, each six ounces. Mix them.
| Laxative Clyster. | 1785 |
Take of milk and water, each six ounces; sweet oil or fresh butter, and brown sugar, of each two ounces. Mix them.
| Oily Clyster. | 1785 |
To four ounces of the infusuion of camomile flowers, add an equal quantity of Florence oil.
| Starch Clyster. | 1785 |
Take jelly of starch, four ounces; linseed oil, half an ounce. Liquify the jelly over a gentle fire, and then mix in the oil.
| Turpentine Clyster. | 1785 |
Take of common decoction, ten ounces; Venice turpentine, dissolved with the yolk of an egg, half an ounce; Florence oil, one ounce. Mix them.
| Vinegar Clyster. | 1785 |
This clyster is made by mixing three ounces of vinegar with five of water-gruel.
Collyrium or Eye-water
| Collyrium of Alum. | 1785 |
Take of alum, half a drachm; agitate it well together with the white of one egg.
| Collyrium of Lead. | 1785 |
Take sugar of lead, and crude sal ammoniac, of each four grains. Dissolve them in eight ounces of common water.
| Vitriolic Collyrium. | 1785 |
Take of white vitriol, half a drachm: rose-water, six ounces. Dissolve the vitriol in the water, and filter the liquor.
Confection
| Japonic Confection. | 1785 |
Take of Japan earth, three ounces; tormentil root, nutmeg, olibanum, of each two ounces; opium dissolved in a sufficient quantity of Lisbon wine, a drachm and a half; simple syrup and conserve of rose...
Conserve and Preserve
| Candied Orange Peel. | 1785 |
Soak Seville orange-peel in several waters, till it loses its bitterness; then boil it in a solution of double refined sugar in water, till it becomes tender and transparent.
| Conserve of Red Roses. | 1785 |
Take a pound of red rose buds, cleared of their heels; beat them well in a mortar, and, adding by degrees two pounds of double refined sugar, in powder, make a conserve.
| Conserve of Sloes. | 1785 |
This may be made by boiling the sloes gently in water, being careful to take them out before they burst: afterwards expressing the juice, and beating it up with three times its weight of fine sugar.
Cordial
| A Cordial Caudle. | 1710 |
Take sweet Almonds beaten in a Mortar 12; Yolks of Eggs 2; Conserve of red Roses and Gilly Flowers, each 1 ounce; Aqua Coelestis half an ounce; Canary Wine, Damask Rose Water, each half a pint; work t...
Currant
| Laxative Currants. | 1710 |
Take Senna 4 ounces; Juniper berries bruis'd 2 ounces; White Wine and Water, each 1 pint; make a close and warm Infusion for 6 Hours, then strain out the Liquor, and putting into it Currants (well pic...
Decoction
| A Balsamick Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Malaga Raisins stoned and chop'd to pieces 2 ounces; Roots of Sarsa, China, Liquorice, each half an ounce; Shavings of Hartshorn and Ivory, each 2 drams; Tops of St. Johns Wort 1 handful; boil in...
| A Bitter Aromatic Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Roots of Calamus Aromaticus, Gentian, each 2 drams; Galangale 4 scruples; Herbs of Centory and dried Wormwood, Flowers of Camomile and Stechas, each 1 dram; make a Decoction in Water 3 pints to 2...
| A Cachectic Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Polypodium roots 2 ounces; Ash tree-bark, Tamarinds, each half an ounce; Raisins 1 ounce; Cream of Tartar 2 drams; boil in Water 20 ounces to 12; to the Liquor when strain'd, add White Wine 4 oun...
| A Cephalic Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Guaiacum, Sassaphras, each 2 drams; Male Piony root 1 ounce; dried Sage, Marjoram, Betony, Arabian Stechas-flowers, each half an handful; boil in Water 3 pints to 28 ounces; to the strain'd Liquo...
| A Decoction against Scrophule. | 1710 |
Take Herb Robert, white Horehound, Smalage, Agrimony, each 1 handful; Dill seed half an ounce; boil in Water 3 pints to 1 quart, and strain.
| A Decoction against the Scurvy. | 1710 |
Take Pine (or Firr) tops cut small 4 handfuls ; Winters bark bruised half an ounce; boil in Water 1 quart to 20 ounces; pouring into it at last, Juice of Dandelion 4 ounces; strain, and when its cold ...
| A Decoction called Liberans. | 1710 |
Take Sarsa 6 ounces; Currants cut small 8 ounces; Infuse (according to Art) and boil in Water 6 quarts, when its cold, quench in it Calx vive half a pound; let it stand to subside, then pour off the c...
| A Decoction for Glysters. | 1710 |
Take Mallows 2 handfuls; Violet leaves, Groundsel, each 1 handful; Camomile flowers, Flax-seed, each 2 drams; sweet Fennel- seed half an ounce; make a Decoction in Water 1 pint and half to 1 pint; whi...
| A Decoction for the Bite of a Mad Dog. | 1710 |
Take Turners Chips of Box wood, Male Piony-seed, each 1 ounce; Herbs of Sage, Wood Sage, Betony, Sanicle, Angelica, Devils-bit, Woody Night Shade, each 1 handful; boil these in Water 5 pints to 4, and...
| A Decoction in a Catarrh. | 1710 |
Take yellow and red Sanders, each 2 drams; Guaiacum, Sassafras, each half an ounce; Liquorice 1 ounce and half; Raisins 1 ounce; boil in fine Barly Water 3 pints to 1 quart; adding at last Juice of Ho...
| A Decoction in a Diarrhea. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Bole Armoniac 1 ounce; soft white Chalk 3 ounce; boil in Water 3 pints to 26 ounces; strain and set it by to subside; then having poured off the clear, add Diascordium half an ounce; Cin...
| A Decoction of Agaric. | 1710 |
Take Agaric (sliced and tied up in a Rag) 2 drams; boil it in Water to 3 ounces adding towards the last Cloves bruised half a dram; to the Liquor when strain'd and quite cold add Scammony prepared 4 g...
| A Decoction of Barberry Rinds. | 1710 |
Take Barberry rinds, Turmerick, each half an ounce; Celandine 4 handfuls; Goose-dung (tied up in a rag) 2 ounces; boil in Water 2 pints and half, towards the last adding White Wine half a pint; Saffro...
| A Decoction of Burdock. | 1710 |
Take Burdock Roots 4 ounces; Chamaepitys 4 handfuls; boil in Water 3 pints to 28 ounces; strain and add Magistral Worm Water 4 ounces; Spirit of Scurvy Grass, Elixir Proprietatis Tartaris'd, each 2 dr...
| A Decoction of Catechu compound. | 1710 |
Take Guaiacum, Sassaphras, each 3 drams; yellow and red Sanders, each 2 drams; the blackest part of Japanic Earth powdered half an ounce; Liqourice 1 ounce; dried Sage 1 handful; boil in Barly Water 3...
| A Decoction of Catechu simple. | 1710 |
Take Japanic Earth 2 drams; boil in Water 1 pint to 12 ounces; let it stand to subside then having powred out the clearest, add strong Cinnamon Water, Syrup of Quinces (or of dried Roses) each 2 ounce...
| A Decoction of Chamepitys. | 1710 |
Take Ground Pine dried 2 handfuls; Flowers of Stechas 2 drams; Male Piony root 1 ounce; boil in Water 3 pints to 1 quart; strain and add Spirit of Scurvy Grass, and of Lavender compound, each 1 dram, ...
| A Decoction of Coralline. | 1710 |
Take Mercury vive 2 ounces; Dittany of Creet 2 drams, powder'd Coralline half an ounce; boil in Purslane Water 1 pint and half to 14 ounces; then its strain'd and separated from the Mercury, sweeten i...
| A Decoction of hemp-seed. | 1710 |
Take Hemp-seed bruised 3 ounces; Agrimony, Shepherds pouch, Plantain, Knot grass, each 1 handful and a half; boil in Water, 2 quarts to 2 quarts; edulcorate the strained Liquor with Sugar 4 ounces; or...
| A Decoction of horse Tail. | 1710 |
Take Horse Tail Herb 6 handfuls; midling Quinces cut to pieces 3; Sumach, Myrtle berries, each 1 ounce and half; Red Roses dried 1 handful and a half; Balaustines 3 drams; boil in Water 9 pints to 5 p...
| A Decoction of hounds-Tongue. | 1710 |
Take Hounds-Tongue leaves 2 handfuls; Liquorice half an ounce; Raisins 2 ounces; boil in Water 2 pints and half to 30 ounces; adding at last, Anniseeds half an ounce; to the strain'd Liquor add Diacod...
| A Decoction of Juniper. | 1710 |
Take Juniper berries (well bruised, and tied up in a rag) 4 ounces; boil them in Canary Wine 3 pints to 1 quart, and strain.
| A Decoction of Raisins. | 1710 |
Take Raisins of the Sun stoned, and chopped small 4 ounces; boil in good drinking Water 3 pints to 1 quart; and stain.
| A Decoction of Roses. | 1710 |
Take Conserve of Red Roses 2 ounces; Malaga Raisins stoned 1 ounce; Liquorice, Melon seeds, each half an ounce; Barly Water 3 pints, boil to 1 quart, and run it through a Flannel bag several times, 't...
| A Decoction of Sarsa. | 1710 |
Take Sarsa 3 ounces; Raisins 1 ounce and half; Infuse according to Art, and decoct in Water 2 quarts to 1 quart; in the strin'd Liquor dissolve Spanish Juice of Liquorice 2 drams.
| A Decoction of Scorzonera. | 1710 |
Take Pearl Barly half an ounce; Roots of Scorzonera 2 ounces; Roots of Sorrel 1 ounce; Wood Sorrel leaves 1 handful; Parings of 2 Pippins; boil in Water 3 pints to 28 ounces , strain and sweeten with ...
| A Decoction of Sorrel Roots. | 1710 |
Take Sorrel roots, Raisins of the Sun ston'd and chop'd small, each 2 ounces; Liquorice, Pearl Barly, each half an ounce; boil in running Water, 3 pints to 1 quart, strain and add Syrup of Lemons 1 ou...
| A Decoction of Tamarinds. | 1710 |
Take Tamarinds 2 ounces; Raisins stoned 4 ounces; boil in fair Water 3 pints to 1 quart, which strain.
| A Decoction of the Woods. | 1710 |
Take Guaiacum 4 ounces; Sassaphras 2 ounces; Sanders both red and yellow, each 1 ounce; Ivory, Harts-horn, each half an ounce; infuse and boil according to Art in Water 6 quarts to 3 quarts; then stra...
| A Decoction of Trefoil. | 1710 |
Take Water Trefoil dried, Ground Pine, each half an ounce; Bitter sweet 1 handful; Bay berries, Stechas flowers, each 2 drams; boil in Water 3 pints to 1 quart; towards the last, adding Juice of Rue 1...
| A Decoction of Turneps. | 1710 |
Take Turneps cut into slices 2 pound; Herbs Hounds tongue, Colts foot, each 1 handful; Raisins of the Sun 1 ounce; Liquorice half an ounce; boil in Barly Water 2 quarts to 1 quart, adding at last Cori...
| A Decoction of Walnut rinds Purging. | 1710 |
Take Walnut rinds prepar'd as above said half an ounce; Agarick (tied up) 1 dram; cloves 15 grains; Salt of Tartar half a dram; boil in Water 10 ounces to 4; to the strain'd add Elixir Proprietatis ta...
| A Decoction of Walnut rinds. | 1710 |
Take the Rind of Walnut tree root 1 ounce and half; bruise, and let it lie infusing warm (in an Earthen or Glass Vessel) 8 hours in Elder Vinegar, then dry it. To these Rinds thus prepar'd, add Caper ...
| A Decoction of Yarrow. | 1710 |
Take Yarrow 2 handfuls; Archangel with a white Flower, Hounds tongue, each 1 handful; Red Sanders half an ounce; boil in Water 2 pints and half to 1 quart; adding at last Japanic Earth powder'd 2 dram...
| A Decoction with Tartar. | 1710 |
Take Shavings of Ivory half an ounce; Roots and Leaves of Strawberries 4 handfuls; White Wine Tartar powder'd an ounce; Salt of Tartar 2 drams; boil in Water 1 quart to 1 pint and half; to the straine...
| A Depurating Decoction. | 1710 |
Take roots of Quich Grass, Butchers Broom, Fennel, Parsly, each 1 ounce; Herbs of Cleavers, Dandelion, each 1 handful; Currants chopp'd small 2 ounces; boil in Water 3 pints to 28 ounces; strain, add ...
| A Diuretic Decoction. | 1710 |
Take roots of Fennel, Sparagus, each 2 ounces; Water- Cherries 16; Golden rod 2 handfuls; boil in Water and White Wine (added towards the last) each 18 ounces to 22 ounces; to the strained Liquor add ...
| A Magistral Decoction of Mallows. | 1710 |
Take Mallow leaves whole 8 handfuls; boil in Water 4 quarts to 3; let the Liqour run through a Sieve or Cullender of it self, without squeezing, put into it more whole Mallows 4 handfuls; boil again t...
| A Nephritic Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Roots of Marsh Mallows 1 ounce and half; Liquorice half an ounce; Golden rod 2 handfuls; Pellitory of the Wall, Marsh Mallows, each 1 handful; Figs 4; Juniper berries, Seeds of Macedonian Parsly,...
| A Pacific Decoction. | 1710 |
Take white Poppy Heads (without the seeds) 1 ounce, cut and boil in Water 3 pint to 28 ounces; adding at last, dried Cowslip flowers 2 drams; in the strained Liquor dissolve Diascordium 2 drams; Syrup...
| A Pectoral Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Pearl Barly, Raisins of the Sun ston'd each 1 ounce; Figs, Dates, each 8; Liquorice half an ounce; Aniseed (added at last) 2 drams; make a Decoction in Water 3 pints to 1 quart; which strain out ...
| A Pleuritick Decoction. | 1710 |
Take of the Pectoral Decoction 1 quart; juice of Stone Horse dung 2 ounces; Oil of Anniseed 8 drops; white Sugar 1 ounce, mix.
| A Psoric Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Fumitory, Ragwort, each 1 handful; Liquorice 1 ounce; Argent vive 4 ounces; boil in Water 2 pints and half to 1 quart; strain, and (the Argent being taken out) sweeten with Sugar, or give it as '...
| A Splanchnic Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Turmerick bruised 1 ounce; Rhubarb, Spikenard, each 1 dram; Kernels of Ash keys half an ounce; Agrimony, Ceterach, each 1 handful; Tamarisk tops 2 handfuls; boil in Water 3 pints to 24 ounces; st...
| A Splenetic Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Bark of Capers and Ash tree, each 2 ounces; tops of Tamarisk, Agrimony, each 2 handful; Salt of Tartar 2 drams; boil in Water 2 pints and half; (adding at last White Wine half a pint; Spikenard 2...
| A Stiptic Decoction. | 1710 |
Take roots of Nettle and Comfrey, each 1 ounce and half; Herbs Yarrow, Plantain, each 1 handful; Pomgranate peel, Gum Arabick, each 2 drams; Seeds of white Poppy, Henbane, each 3 drams; boil in Water ...
| A Variolose Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Scorzonera roots 1 ounce and half; Liquorice half an ounce; Figs 8; Raisins stoned 1 ounce; shaved Hartshorn 2 drams; boil in Barly Water 3 pints to 30 ounce, adding (when three quarters boiled) ...
| An Astringent Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Pomegranate Peels bruised 1 ounce; boil it in 3 pints of Water 'till half be evaporated, adding towards the last Cloves bruised half a dram; Nutmeg 1 dram; strain and add Syrup of dried red Roses...
| An Edulcorating Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Sarsa, China, each 3 ounces; yellow and red Sanders, Harts-horn, Ivory, each 6 drams: Infuse according to art, and boil in Water 6 quarts to 6 pints; which strain off, and edulcorate with Sugar t...
| An Emmenagogue Decoction. | 1710 |
Take roots of Smalage 2 ounces; Calamus Aromaticus, Bay- berries, each 2 drams; Zedoary, Cubebs, each 1 dram and half; Mace 2 scruples; Galingale, Grains of Paradise, each half a scruple; Dittany of C...
| An Expectorating Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Orris root 2 ounces; Agaric (tied up in a piece of Linnen) 4 scruples; dried Tobacco 2 scruples; Hyssop, Thyme, each 1 handful; boil in Water 36 ounces to 28 ounces; strain and add Oxymel simple ...
| An hysteric Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Turners Chips of Box Wood, white Bryony root, each half an ounce; Male Piony and wild Valerian roots, each 1 ounce; Stechas flowers 2 drams; Myrrh bruised 1 dram; boil in Water 1 pint and half, (...
| An Icteric Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Roots of Turmerick, Madder, each 1 ounce; Celandine roots and leaves 2 handfuls; Earth worms (slit open and washed clean) 20; boil in Water and Rhenish Wine (added towards the last) each 1 pint a...
| An Incrassating Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Gum Arabick grosly powdered 3 ounces; boil it in Water (carefully stirring it, least it burn to the Skillet) from 1 quart to 28 ounces; and add Syrup of Marsh Mallows 4 ounces, mix.
| Antiloimick Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Roots of Scorzonera 2 ounces; Zedoary half an ounce; Contrayerva, Spanish Angelica, Shavings of Harts-horn and Ivory, each 2 drams; Cochineal whole 4 scruples; boil these in fine, clear Barly Wat...
| Antiphthisic Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Ox Eye Daisy flowers dry'd 1 handful; Snails wiped clean 3; Candied Eryngo Root half an ounce; Pearl Barly 3 drams; boil in Spring Water from 1 pint and half to 1 pint, and strain it out.
| Compound Decoction of the Bark. | 1785 |
Take of Peruvian bark and Virginian snake-root, grossly powdered, each three drachms. Boil them in a pint of water to one half. To the strained liquor add an ounce and a half of aromatic water.
| Decoction of Althea. | 1785 |
Take of the roots of marsh-mallows, moderately dried, three ounces; raisins of the sun, one ounce; water, three pints. Boil the ingredients in the water till the one third of it is consumed; afterward...
| Decoction of Logwood. | 1785 |
Boil three ounces of the shavings, or chips, of logwood, in four pints of water, till one half of the liquor is wasted. Two or three ounces of simple cinnamon-water may be added to this decoction.
| Decoction of Sarsaparilla. | 1785 |
Take of fresh sarsaparilla root, sliced and bruised, two ounces; shavings of guaiacum wood, one ounce. Boil over a slow fire, in three quarts of water, to one; adding towards the end, half an ounce of...
| Decoction of Seneka. | 1785 |
Take of seneka rattle-snake root, one ounce; water, a pint and a half. Boil to one pint, and strain.
| Decoction of the Bark. | 1785 |
Boil an ounce of the Peruvian bark, grossly powdered, in a pint and a half of water to one pint; then strain the decoction. If a tea-spoonful of the weak spirit of vitriol be added to this medicine, i...
| Fracastorius's Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Diascordium 6 drams; Alexiterial Milk Water 10 ounces; boil to 8 ounces; strain and add Mint Water half an ounce; strong Cinnamon Water 2 ounces; Syrup of Meconium 1 ounce and half; mix up for 3 ...
| Fracastorius's small Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Diascordium half an ounce; Cochineal 1 scruple; boil (for 2 or 3 Walms) in Water 1 pint; adding Sugar half an ounce; strain through a Flannel, and add Cinnamon Water 2 ounces.
| The bitter Febrifuge Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Camomile-flowers dried 2 ounces; Cochineal 16 grains; boil in Water 3 pints to 1 quart; in the strained disslove Salt of Wormwood 2 drams; mix.
| The Common Decoction. | 1785 |
Take of camomile flowers, one ounce; elder flowers, and sweet fennel seeds, of each half an ounce; water, two quarts. Boil them for a little, and then strain the decoction.
| The Common Purging Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Senna 3 drams; Cream of Tartar 1 dram; boil in Water 8 ounces to 3; in the strain'd Liquor dissolve Manna half an ounve; Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb 6 drams; Oil of Anniseed 1 drop, mix for a P...
| The Decoction called Sacrum. | 1710 |
Take Virginia Snake Root powder'd 6 drams; boil it in Water 1 pint to half a pint; strain and reserve the Liquor by it self: boil the remaining root in a pint more of Water to half a pint as before (a...
| The Decoction called Sanctum. | 1710 |
Take Guaiacum 1 ounce; boil it in Water 2 quarts to 1 quart; adding (when it is half boil'd) Raisins 1 ounce; Spanish Juice of Liquorice 2 drams, and so strain it: Sometimes I add Japanic Earth 2 dram...
| The Magistral Febrifuge Decoction. | 1710 |
Take fine powder'd Bark of Peru 2 ounces; boil in Water 1 quart to 14 ounces; strain, and to the Mass remaining having poured a quart more of Water, boil it again to 14 ounces; adding (about the middl...
| The Portugal Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Spring Water 26 ounces; make it boil and then put into it Juice of Lemons, and fine Sugar each 2 ounces; Cochineal 1 scruple; let it continue boiling a very little, so as that the Scum may be tak...
| The Saline Febrifuge Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Salt of Wormwood 8 scruples; white Sugar 4 ounces; boil these in Water 1 quart and despume.
| The Scarlet Decoction. | 1710 |
Take Nitre in Crystals 1 ounce; white Sugar 4 ounces; Cochineal 16 grains or 1 scruple; powder all together, and put it into boiling Water 1 quart; continue it boiling just long enough to scum it, the...
| White Decoction. | 1785 |
Take of the purest chalk, in powder, two ounces; gum arabic half an ounce; water, three pints. Boil to one quart, and strain the decoction.
Diet
| The White Diet. | 1710 |
Take Milk 2 quarts; the Breast of a Capon boiled, Sweet Almonds blanch'd and well pounded 2 ounces; beat and mash all in a Marble Mortar, strain and wring it out hard; to this add Rice Meal sifted 3 o...
Draught
| A Bechic Draught. | 1710 |
Take powdered Gum Arabick half a dram; dissolve it over the Fire in Scabious and Barly Cinnamon Water, each 1 ounce and half; then add Mithridate, Diascordium, each 1 scruple; Lohoch Sanans 1 dram; Di...
| A Camphorate Draught. | 1710 |
Take Camphire (rubbed, and dissolved in a Mortar with a few drops of Oil of sweet Almonds) 8 grains; Corn Poppy water 3 ounces; Syrup of Marsh Mallows 6 drams; Sugar of Lead 2 grains, mix.
| A Cardiac Draught. | 1710 |
Take black Cherry Water, Alexiterial Milk Water, each 1 ounce; Mint Water 1 dram; Epidemial, Piony compound Waters, each 2 drams; Confection of Alkermes 1 scruple; Oil of Nutmeg 1 drop; Syrup of Gilly...
| A Cephalic Draught. | 1710 |
Take black Cherry water 3 ounces; Compound Piony water, Syrup of Piony compound, each half an ounce; Tincture of Castor 30 drops; Liquid Laudanum 15 drops; Cinnaber of Antimony (or rather native Cinna...
| A common Paregoric Draught. | 1710 |
Take black Cherry water 2 ounces and a half; Epidemial and strong Cinnamon Water, each 2 drams; Syrup of Meconium 1 ounces, mix.
| A Consolatory Draught. | 1710 |
Take Waters of black Cherries 2 ounces; of Mint, Damask Roses, Orange flowers Coelestis, each 1 dram, strong Cinnamon, and compound Piony Waters, each 2 drams; Confection of Alkermes, Gascoin powder, ...
| A Diaphoretic Draught. | 1710 |
Take of Carduus water 2 ounces and half; Epidemial, Treacle Water, Syrup of Meconium, each half an ounce; Diaphoretic Antimony 1 scruple; Venice Treacle 2 scruple; Spirit of Sal Armoniac 10 drops, mix...
| A Diuretic Acid Draught. | 1710 |
Take Horse Radish water compound 1 ounce and half; Brandy, Juice of Lemons, each half an ounce; Syrup of Violets 1 ounce; mix.
| A Diuretic Oleose Draught. | 1710 |
Take French white (or Rhenish) Wine 4 ounces; Oil of sweet Almonds 1 ounce; Oil of Turpentine 20 drops; white Sugar half an ounces, mix.
| A Draught against the Whites. | 1710 |
Take the white of an Egg, beat it up very well with strong Cinnamon Water 1 ounce.
| A Draught for a Bruise. | 1710 |
Take Canary 4 ounces; Oil of Turpentine 10 drops; Sealed Earth, Dragons Blood powder'd, each 1 scruple; white Sugar 2 drams, mix.
| A Draught for a Catarrh. | 1710 |
Take Colts foot water 6 ounces, white Sugar Candy powder'd 6 drams; Yolks of 2 Eggs: Having beat them up together, and set them over a gentle Fire, stir and mix them well, and give it the Patient just...
| A Draught for Gravel. | 1710 |
Take Juice of Parsly 1 ounce and half; Brandy half an ounce; Oil of Aniseed 2 drops; Spirit of Salt Armoniac 8 drops; white Sugar 2 drams, mix.
| A Draught in a Vulnerary Fever. | 1710 |
Take Alexiterial Milk water 2 ounces and half; Treacle water, Vinegar, each 6 drams; Crabs Eyes levigated 2 scruple; Diaphoretic Antimony 1 scruple; white Sugar Candy 2 drams; Oil of Turpentine 4 drop...
| A Draught in the Small Pox. | 1710 |
Take Cochineal whole 1 dram; boil it in Allexterial Milk water 4 ounces to 3; in the strain'd dissolve Diascordium, from 1 scruple to 1 dram; Diacordium 6 drams; Oil of Nutmeg 1 drop, mix.
| A Draught of Hounds Tongue. | 1710 |
Take Juice of Hounds tongue half an ounce; Corn Poppy water 1 ounce and half; white Sugar 2 drams; Oil of Aniseed 1 drop, mix.
| A Draught of Volatiles. | 1710 |
Take Volatile Salt of Harts-horn half a scruple; Salt of Amber 5 grains; Canary Wine 4 ounces; Oil of Nutmegs 2 drops; white Sugar 2 drams, mix.
| A Febrifuge Draught. | 1710 |
Take Carduus water 3 ounces; Treacle water, Syrup of Meconium, each half an ounce; Diascordium half a dram; Salt of Wormwood 1 scruple; Spirit of Salt Armoniad 15 drops; Oil of Cloves 1 drop, mix.
| A Japanic Draught. | 1710 |
Take Frog Spawn water 2 ounces; Syrup of dried Roses 2 drams; powder'd Japanic Earth 1 scruple; Sugar of Lead 4 grains; Oil of Cinnamon 1 drop; Liquid Laudanum 20 drops, mix.
| A Milky Draught. | 1710 |
Take Yolk of an Egg, brown Sugar Candy powder'd fine 6 drams; red Roses water 1 ounce; Oil of Nutmeg 1 drops; mix these thoroughly well, make them Blood warm, and add Milk just from the Cow a quarter ...
| A nitrous Draught. | 1710 |
Take red Poppy water 3 ounces; Salt Prunel powder'd fine 1 dram; Syrup of Violets 1 ounce, mix.
| A Peruvian Draught. | 1710 |
Take Carduus (or Alexiterial Milk) water 2 ounces ; Epidemial Water, Syrup of Gilly flowers, each 2 drams; Oil of Nutmeg 1 drop; very fine powder'd Peruvian bark 1 dram, mix.
| A Pleuritic Draught. | 1710 |
Take fine powder'd Olibanum (or instead of it fine black Rosin) 1 dram, mix it well in a Mortar with the Yolk of an Egg, to which add Diacodium 6 drams; red Poppy water 1 ounce and half; Oil of Annise...
| A Preparing Draught. | 1710 |
Take Rhenish (or French white) Wine 3 ounces; powder'd Cream of Tarter 1 dram; Syrup of the 5 opening Roots and Oxymel of Squills, each half an ounce, mix.
| A Refrigerating Paregoric Draught. | 1710 |
Take red Poppy water 2 ounces; Frog Spawn water, Syrup of Lemons, each 1 ounce; Liquid Laudanum 25 drops, mix.
| A Saccharine Draught. | 1710 |
Take Damsk Rose, and Barly Cinnamon water, and powder'd brown Sugar Candy, each 2 ounces; dissolve it over the Fire for a Draught, to be taken at Bed time.
| A Saponaceous Draught. | 1710 |
Take Venice Soap (scrap'd very thin) from 2 scruple to 4; boil it in Cows Milk from 6 ounces to 4; then add Sugar 3 drams, and strain it.
| A Styptic Draught. | 1710 |
Take Plantain, Frog Spawn water, each 1 ounce and a half; Barly Cinnamon water, Wine Vinegar, each 3 drams; Syrup of white water Lilies half an ounce; Astringent Crocus of Mars half a dram; Sugar of L...
| An Alexipharmac Draught. | 1710 |
Take Alexiterial Milk Water 3 ounces; Epidemial, Compound Piony Water, Syrup of Gilly flowers, Syrup of Saffron, each 2 drams, Diascordium, 2 scruples; Goa Stone 1 scruple, mix.
| An Antemetic Draught. | 1710 |
Take stong Cinnamon Water, Syrup of Lemons, each half an ounce; Salt of Wormwood 1 scruple; Oil of Nutmegs and Cloves, each 1 drop; Liquid Laudanum 20 drops, mix.
| An Astringent Draught. | 1710 |
Take Waters of Plantain 2 ounces; Mint ahlf an ounce; strong Cinnamon 1 ounce; Syrup of Meconium 6 drams; Oil of Nutmeg 1 drop; Diascordium half a dram; Bole 1 scruple; Balaustines half a scruple, mix...
| An hemoptoic Draught. | 1710 |
Take Plantain water 4 ounces; Wine Vinegar, Syrup of Comfrey, each half an ounce; the white of one Egg beat up, mix.
| An Hydragogue Draught. | 1710 |
Take Cambogium powdered, Cream of Tartar, each 14 grains; Oil of Juniper (well mixed with white Sugar 1 dram and an half;) 3 drops; white Wine 3 ounces, mix.
| An Hysteric Draught. | 1710 |
Take Penny-royal water 2 ounce; compound Bryony water 3 drams; Tincture of Castor 1 dram; Juice of Rue half an ounce; Syrup of Mugwort half an ounce, mix.
| An Oleose Draught. | 1710 |
Take new drawn (not rank) Linseed Oil 3 ounces; Oil of Anniseed 3 drops; Syrup of Maiden hair 1 ounce; Spirit of Salt Armoniac 12 drops; mix.
| Anodyne Draught. | 1785 |
Take of liquid laudanum, twenty-five drops; simple cinnamon-water, an ounce; common syrup, two drachms. Mix them.
| Diuretic Draught. | 1785 |
Take of the diuretic salt two scruples; syrup of poppies, two drachms; simple cinnamon-water and common-water, of each an ounce.
| Our Bitter Draught. | 1710 |
Take Waters of Carduus 2 ounces; of Mint and strong Cinnamon, each 2 drams; of Gentian compound half an ounce; powdered Virginia Snake root 1 scruple; mix.
| Purging Draughts. | 1785 |
Take of manna, an ounce; soluble tartar, or Rochel salt, from three to four drachms. Dissolve in three ounces of boiling water; to which add Jamaica pepper-water, half an ounce.
| Riverius's Febrifuge Draught. | 1710 |
Take Succory water 3 ounces; Salt of Wormwood half a dram; Spirit of Vitriol 20 drops; or rather as much as is found sufficient to ballance the Salt.
| Sweating Draught. | 1785 |
Take spirit of Minererus, two ounces; salt of hartshorn, five grains; simple cinnamon-water, and syrup of poppies, of each half an ounce. Make them into a draught.
| Vomiting Draughts. | 1785 |
Take of ipecacuanha, in powder, a scruple; water, an ounce; simple syrup, a drachm. Mix them.
Electuary
| 1. An Analeptic Electuary. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Chocolate, sweet Almonds blanch'd, double refin'd Sugar searced, sweet Butter unsalted, each half an ounce; Pulp of Conserve of red Roses passed through a Sieve 1 ounce and half; Juice o...
| 1. An Electuary of Zedoary. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Zedoary 1 ounce; Balsam of Peru 2 drams; Syrup of Piony 3 ounces; mix.
| 2. An Electuary of Zedoary. | 1710 |
Take conserve of Marjoram 6 drams; Balsam of Peru 2 drams; long Pepper 16 drams; powder'd Zedoary 1 ounce; Diacodium 2 ounces, mix.
| 2. Analeptic Electuary. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Chocolate 2 ounces; Juice of Kermes strain'd half an ounce; Ambergrise (ground with a little loaf Sugar) 8 grains; Oil of Cinnamon 1 drop; Oil of Nutmeg 2 drops; Syrup of Balsam 2 ounce;...
| A Balsamic Electuary. | 1710 |
Take Conserve of red Roses 2 ounces; new unsalted Butter wahed in Rose water 1 ounce; Yolk of Egg half an ounce; powder'd Balsam of Tolu 4 scruples; Balm of Gilead 2 scruples, mix.
| A Camphorate Electuary. | 1710 |
Take Conserve of Rue 3 ounces; Venice Treacle 1 ounce; Camphir 8 grains; Oil of Amber 16 drops, mix.
| A Carminative Electuary. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Golden rod, Vervain, Savory, Marjoram, Thyme, Anniseed, each 1 dram; common Rosin 6 drams; Mithridate half an ounce; clarify'd-Honey 2 ounces, or as much as needs, mix.
| A Cephalic Electuary. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Male Piony root half an ounce; Humane Cranium, Cinnaber of Antimony (or rather Native) each 2 drams, candy'd Nutmeg 1 ounce; Syrup of Piony compound 2 ounces; or as much as is requir'd, ...
| A Cretaceous Electuary. | 1710 |
Take fine soft white Chalk washed, Conserve of Roman (or Sea) Wormwood each 1 ounce; Oil of Wormwood 1 drop; Oil of Mint 2 drops; Syrup of Quinces enough to mix it with.
| A Laxative Electuary. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Senns, Cream of Tartar, each 4 scruples; Pulp of Prunes passed thro' a Sieve 2 ounces; Syrup of Roses soluble as much as sufficient, mix.
| A Nephritic Electuary. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Seeds of Flixweed, clarify'd Honey, fresh butter, each 1 ounce; powder'd nutmeg 1 dram; make it up with Syrup of Marsh Mallows.
| A Pectoral Electuary. | 1710 |
Take powder'd white Troches, clarify'd Honey, conserve of red Roses, unsalted Butter, each 1 ounce; Oil of Nutmeg 4 drops; make it up with Syrup of Injubes.
| A Peruvian Astringent Electuary. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Bark of Peru 1 ounces; Balsam of Tolu, Japanic Earth, each 1 dram; Mr. Boyle's Syrup as much as is sufficient, mix.
| A Peruvian Electuary. | 1710 |
Take finely powder'd Peruvian Bark 1 ounce; the blackest part of Japanic Earth 1 dram; Balsam of Peru half a dram; Oil of Nutmeg 2 drops; Syrup of Raspberries 3 ounces, mix.
| A Peruvian Epileptic Electuary. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Bark 6 drams; Virginia Snake root 2 drams; Syrup of Piony as much as needs, mix it up into a soft Electuary.
| A Purging Electuary. | 1710 |
Take powder of Jalap roots 2 drams; Rhubarb 1 dram; Scammony (prepared with Sulphur) 1 scruple; Cream of Tarter 2 scruples; Oil of Anniseed and Cloves, each 2 drops; Lenitive Electuary 1 ounces; Syrup...
| A Sanative Electuary. | 1710 |
Take Sperma Ceti 1 dram; yellow Wax 3 drams; Oil of sweet Almonds 1 ounce; having melted all together, and taken it from the Fire, keep it continually stirr'd, and when its almost cold, and hath consi...
| A Splanchnic Electuary. | 1710 |
Take conserve of Roman (or Sea) Wormwood and of Scurvy grass, each 2 ounces; candy'd Elecampane root half and ounce: powder of Arum compound 3 drams; long Pepper, Salt of Wormwood, each half a dram; S...
| A Stomachic Electuary. | 1710 |
Take conserve of red Roses and Roman Wormwood, each 1 ounce and half; conserve of Mint, yellow Orange peel, green Ginger, Venice Treacle, each half an ounce; long Pepper 24 grains; Oil of Cinnamon 4 d...
| A Styptic Electuary. | 1710 |
Take conserve of red Roses 3 ounces; Astringent Crocus of Mars 3 drams; Sugar of Lead 1 dram; Syrup of Quinces (or of dry'd Roses) half an ounce, mix.
| A Sulphurate Electuary. | 1710 |
Take conserve of red Roses 2 ounces; Balsam of Sulphur Terebinthinated 1 dram, mix.
| A temperate Cardiac Electuary. | 1710 |
Take Conserve of Gilly flowers 3 ounces; Conserve of Barberries, Juice of Kermes strain'd, each half an ounce; Pearls levigated 4 scruples, mix.
| A temperate Scorbutic Electuary. | 1710 |
Take conserve of wood Sorrel 4 ounces; of Hips 1 ouncel powder of red Coral half an ounce; of Ivory, Harts-horn, each 2 drams; Syrup of the opening roots 2 ounces, mix.
| A Terebinthinate Electuary. | 1710 |
Take conserve of red Roses 4 ounces; Oil of Turpentine 80 drops, mix.
| A warm Cardiac Electuary. | 1710 |
Take Conserve of Gilly flowers, Conserve of the yellow peel of Lemons, each 1 ounce; candy'd Citron peel, Green Ginger, Electuary of Sassaphras, Juice of Kermes strained, each half an ounce; Oil of Nu...
| An Acid Electuary. | 1710 |
Take Conserve of Wood Sorrel 1 ounce and half; conserve of red Roses and of Hips, each 1 ounce; Syrup of Violets half an ounce; Oil of Vitriol as much as serves to give it a grateful Tartness, mix.
| An Apophlegmatic Electuary. | 1710 |
Take Betony leaves powder'd 6 drams; Root of Pellitory of Spain 2 drams; Oil of Cloves (or of Sassaphras, or of Origanum) 4 drops; Honey as much as sufficient, mix.
| An Astringent Electuary. | 1710 |
Take Conserve of red Roses 2 ounces; Diacordium half an ounce; powder'd Bole 2 drams; Dragons Blood 1 dram and half; Balaustines half a dram; Oil of Nutmeg and Cinnamon, each 2 drops; Syrup of dry'd R...
| An Electuary against Abortion. | 1710 |
Take Conserve of red Roses, Marmalade of Quinces, Candy'd Nutmeg, Juice of Kermes strain'd, Syrup of Quinces, Syrup of Corall, each half an onnce; Species of Hyacinth 3 drams; Aromaticum Rosatum, Astr...
| An Electuary of Mallows. | 1710 |
Take conserve of common (or rather Vervain) Mallow flowers, new Butter unsalted, each 2 ounces; powder'd Nutmeg 4 scruples; mix.
| An Electuary of Mars. | 1710 |
Take conserve of Roman (or Sea) Wormwood, and of Scurvy grass, each 3 ounces; green Ginger 1 ounce and half; Rust of Iron (made into fine Dust) 6 drams; Oil of Cloves and Sassaphras, each 6 drops; Syr...
| An Electuary of Mastic. | 1710 |
Take conserve of ref Roses 2 ounces; Raisins of the Sun passed through a pulping Sieve 1 ounce; powder'd Mastic 1 dram and half; Nutmeg half a dram; Syrup of Meconium as much as suffices, mix.
| An Electuary of Mint. | 1710 |
Take conserve of the right Spear Mint 4 ounces; Oil of Cinnamon 4 drops; Oil Cloves 2 drops; Oil of Anise and Wormwood, each 1 drops, mix.
| An Electuary of Mustard. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Mustard seed half an ounce; conserve of Rue 2 ounces; Syrup of Stechas 1 ounce and half; Oil of Rosemary, Lavender, each 4 drops, mix.
| An Electuary of Piony. | 1710 |
Take conserve of Piony flowers 1 ounce; powder'd Piony root 6 drams, Piony seed excorticated 2 drams; Balsam of Peru 4 scruple; Syrup of Piony 3 ounces, mix.
| An Electuary of Satyrion. | 1710 |
Take candy'd Satyrion root 2 ounces; candy'd Eryngo root 1 ounce; candy'd Nutmeg half an ounce; Juice of Kermes, Spirit of Clary, each 2 drams; long Pepper powder'd 16 grains, mix.
| An Electuary with Colophony. | 1710 |
Take Conserve of white Arch Angel flowers 1 ounce and half; Diascordium, green Ginger, powder'd Colophony, each half an ounce; Oil of Cinnamon 4 drops; Syrup of dried Roses, as much as fits to make it...
| An Electuary with Currants. | 1710 |
Take of the best Rhubarb (finely grated, without being dried) half an ounce; Currants picked clean, and rubbed with a course Cloath 3 ounces; Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb half an ounce; Oil of Anisee...
| An Electuary with Ginger. | 1710 |
Take green Ginger 1 ounce; conserve of red Roses 3 ounces; (sometimes I order a like quantity of each) Oil of Cinnamon 4 drops; Oil of Cloves 2 drops, mix.
| An Electuary with Myrrh. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Myrrh half an ounce; Olibanum 1 dram; Saffron half a dram; work them together in a Mortar with the yolk of an Egg, and add five powder'd white Sugar Candy half an ounce; Pulp of Raisins ...
| An Electuary with Turmeric. | 1710 |
Take conserve of Celandine leaves 1 ounce; powder'd Turmeric half an ounce; Troches (or rather dried flesh) of Vipers 3 drams; Rhubarb, Saffron, each half a dram; Syrup of Fumitory as much as suffices...
| An Expectorating Electuary. | 1710 |
Take conserve of Rosemary flowers 1 ounce; green Ginger, Millepedes powder'd (I fancy lives ones are better) each half an ounce; flower of Sulphur 2 drams; flower of Benjamin, Saffron and Virginia Tob...
| An hot Scorbutic Electuary. | 1710 |
Take Scurvy grass 3 ounces; Currants, white Sugar searced fine, each 1 ounce and half; powder of Arum compound 6 drams; Winter Bark 2 drams; Oil of sassaphras 4 drops; Syrup of Elder berries 1 ounce, ...
| An Hysteric Electuary. | 1710 |
Take conserve of stinking Orrach 4 ounce; Oil of Amber 48 drops; mix.
| Electuary for the Dysentery. | 1785 |
Take of the Japonic confection, two ounces; Locatelli's basam, one ounce; rhubarb in powder, half an ounce; syrup of marshmallows, enough to make an electuary.
| Electuary for the Epilepsy. | 1785 |
Take of Peruvian bark, in powder, an ounce; of powdered tin, and wild valerian root, each half an ounce; simple syrup, enough to make an electuary.
| Electuary for the Gonorrhoea. | 1785 |
Take of lenitive electuary, three ounces; jalap and rhubarb, in powder, of each two drachms; nitre, half an ounce; simple syrup, enough to make an electuary.
| Electuary for the Palsy. | 1785 |
Take of powdered mustard-seed, and conserve of roses, each an ounce; syrup of ginger, enough to make an electuary.
| Electuary for the Piles. | 1785 |
Take flowers of sulphur, one ounce; cream of tartar, half an ounce; treacle, a sufficient quantity to form an electuary.
| Electuary for the Rheumatism. | 1785 |
Take of conserve of roses, two ounces; cinnabar of antimony, levigated, an ounce and a half; gum guaiacum, in powder, an ounce; syrup of ginger, a sufficient quantity to make an electuary.
| Electuary of the Bark. | 1785 |
Take of Peruvian bark, in powder, three ounces; cascarilla, half an ounce; syrup of ginger, enough to make an electuary.
| Lenitive Electuary | 1785 |
Take of senna, in fine powder, eight ounces; coriander seed, also in powder, four ounces; pulp of tamarinds and of French prunes, each a pound. Mix the pulps and powders together, and with a sufficien...
| Lucatellus's Electuary. | 1710 |
Take conserve of red Roses 2 ounces; conserve of Hips 1 ounce; Lucatellus's Balsam half an ounce; Species of Diatragacanth frigid 1 dram; Syrup of Balsam 3 drams, mix.
| Mr. Boyle's Electuary. | 1710 |
Take white Poppy and Henbane seed powder'd, each half an ounce; Syrup of Corn Poppy, Conserve of red Roses, each 1 ounce and half, mix.
| Poterius's Electuary. | 1710 |
Take Poterius his Antihectic half an ounce; Haly's powder fresh made 1 ounce and half; Syrup of Jujubes as much as suffices, mix,
| The Electuary of Rhubarb. | 1710 |
Take conserve of red Roses 6 drams; Diascordium half an ounce; powder'd Rhubarb 2 drams; Oil of Nutmeg and Cinnamon, each 2 drops; Liquid Laudanum 80 drops; Syrup of Quinces half an ounce, mix.
| The Quadrate Electuary. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Rosemary leaves half an ounce; Syrup of Stechas 1 ounce and half; Balsam of Peru 12 drops; Oil of Nutmeg and Rosemary, each 2 drops, mix.
| The Royal Electuary. | 1710 |
Take conserve of Gilly flowers 2 ounces; of Hips, Gelly of Rasberries and of Currants, Juice of Kermes strain'd, each half an ounce; Ambergrise (well ground in a Mortar, first with Sugar Candy 16 grai...
Eleosaccharum
| A Cardiac Eleosaccharum. | 1710 |
Take Oil of Cinnamon 6 drops; Saffron, Musk, Ambergrise, each 3 grains; white Sugar 45 grains; make it into a powder to be divided into 6 Doses, and given in a fitting Vehicle.
Elixir
| A Anodyne Elixir. | 1710 |
Take Camphire, Myrrh, Saffron, each half an ounce; Contrayerva root, Cloves, each 1 ounce; Opium 2 drams; Spirit of Wine rectify'd without Heat (after describ'd) 20 ounces; Digest in a Dunghil 6 weeks...
| A Cathartic Elixir. | 1710 |
Take Senna 6 drams; Rhubarb 2 drams; Liquorice 1 dram and half; Aniseed, Caraways, each 1 dram: Cochineal 1 scruple; Saffron half a scruple; Brandy 12 ounces; Aqua Miribalis, Cinnamon water, each 2 ou...
| A Stomach Elixir with Cinnamon. | 1710 |
Take Elixir Proprietatis tartaris'd 3 drams; Oil of Cinnamon 12 drops; mix.
| A Stomach Elixir. | 1710 |
Take Elixir Proprietatis tartaris'd 3 drams; Oil of Cloves, Nutmeg, each 6 drops; Oli if Mint 2 drops; Oil of (137,138) Wormwood 1 drop; mix.
Emetic
| Emetic Forms. | 1710 |
Take luke warm Water 1 pint; Oil of Olive (or sweet Almonds) 4 ounces; mix for a Draught.
Emulsion
| A Balsamic Emulsion. | 1710 |
Take Balsam of Tolu 6 drams; decoct it in fine Barly water 3 pints to 1 quart, when it's cold strain it, adding sweet Almonds blanch'd 6 drams; Balm of Gilead 16 drops; white Sugar 1 ounce; make an Em...
| A Cathartic Emulsion. | 1710 |
Take Rosin of Scammony, (or Scammony powder'd fine) half a scruple, or as much as suits the Patient's Constitution; Yolk of Egg 2 drams; white Sugar 1 dram; Damask Rose, and Barly, Cinnamon Water, eac...
| A Common Emulsion. | 1710 |
Take sweet Almonds blanch'd, Cucumber, and white Poppy Seeds, each half an ounce; refined Sugar 1 ounce; beat these all together in a marble Mortar, 'till they are almost like Paste; then adding fine ...
| A Cordial Emulsion. | 1710 |
Take Epidemial and compound Piony Water, each 4 ounces; Citron seeds half an ounce; make an Emulsion, to which (when strained) add Sugar of Pearl 3 drams; Oil of Nutmeg 1 drop, mix. In malignant Fever...
| A Pacific Emulsion. | 1710 |
Take white Poppy seed 2 drams; 1 sweet Almond blanch'd, with red Poppy water 3 ounces and half and make an Emulsion; to which add Mint water 1 dram; Diacodium 3 drams; for a single Dose.
| A Styptic Emulsion. | 1710 |
Take Comfrey root, cut into thin rundles 4 ounces; boil it in water 3 pints to 1 quart; strain out the Liquor, with which and sweet Almonds blanch'd, white Poppy and Henbane seeds, each half an ounce;...
| An Emulsion with Harts-horn. | 1710 |
Take Decoction of burnt Harts-horn (not clear but white) 1 quart; sweet Almonds blanch'd, white Poppy seeds, each half an ounce; make an Emulsion, to which (when strained) add strong Cinnamon Water 2 ...
| An Emuslion of Piony. | 1710 |
Take Piony and white Poppy seed, blanch'd Almonds, each half an ounce; fine Loaf Sugar 1 ounce; Oil of Nutmeg 2 drops; when they are well beaten together, add by degrees, black Cherry water 1 quart; m...
| Arabic Emulsion. | 1785 |
This is made in the same manner as the above, adding to the almonds, while beating, two ounces and a half of the mucilage of gum arabic.
| Brunner's Emulsion. | 1710 |
Take Gum Ammoniacum 1 dram and a half, having dissolv'd it cold in a Mortar, in Hysop Water 4 ounces, and Rhenish Wine 2 ounces; strain it out for 2 Doses.
| Camphorated Emulsion. | 1785 |
Take of Camphor, half a drachm; sweet almonds, half a dozen; white sugar, half an ounce; mint water, eight ounces. Grind the camphor and almonds well together in a stone mortar, and add by degrees the...
| Common Emulsion. | 1785 |
Take of sweet almonds, an ounce; bitter almonds, a drachm; water, two pints.
| Emulsion of Gum Ammoniac. | 1785 |
Take of gum ammoniac, two drachms; water, eight ounces. Grind the gum with the water poured upon it by little and little, till it is dissolved.
| Oily Emulsion. | 1785 |
Take of soft water, six ounces; volatile aromatic spirit, two drachms; Florence oil, an ounce; shake them well together, and add, of simple syrup, half an ounce.
| The Arabic Emulsion. | 1710 |
Take Gum Arabick 1 ounce; bruise and boil it in fine Barly water 1 quart; 'till it be wholly dissolved; with this solution, and Mallow seed, white Poppy seed, and sweet Almonds blanch'd, each half an ...
Epithem
| A Cordial Epithem. | 1710 |
Take Queen of Hungary's Water 6 drams; compound Spirits of Lavender, Spirit of Saffron, each 2 drams; Apopletic Balsam 1 scruple; Oil of Cloves 10 drops; mix.
| A Saponaceous Epithem. | 1710 |
Take the Spirit that comes over first in the Distillation of Magistral Worm water 6 ounces; Spirit of Scurvy grass 2 drams; Spirit of Salt Armoniac 6 drams; Venice Soap scraped thin 1 ounce and half; ...
| An Aluminous Epithem. | 1710 |
Take burnt Alume powder'd half an ounce; Nutmeg 1 dram; honey of Roses as much as is sufficient to make it of the Consistence of an Ointment, which spread upon Paper, and bind upon that side of the Fa...
| An Anodyne Epithem. | 1710 |
Take Brandy 4 ounces; Camphire half a dram; Opium 2 drams, dissolve.
| An Epithem of Calx. | 1710 |
Take Calx 2 ounces; thin Honey as much as id sufficient to bring it to the consistence of an Unguent, to be spread upon Leather, applied to the part affected, and renew'd as often as it grows dry.
| An Epithem of Sugar of Lead. | 1710 |
Take Vinegar half a pint; Sugar of Lead 1 ounce, dissolve.
Errhine
| A Chymical Errhine. | 1710 |
Take Turbith Mineral half a scruple; powder of Liquorice half a dram; Nutmeg 1 scruple; Oil of Rosemary 2 drops; make it all into a powder, to be snuffed up into the Nose in a very small quantity.
| A solid Errhine. | 1710 |
Take Confectio Hamech, powder'd Scammony, each 2 drams; Euphorbium 16 grains, make it into a Mass like Paste, out of which form longish Pellets to be thrust up the Nose, and to be kept an hour with a ...
| A Vitriolic Errhine. | 1710 |
Take Marjoram water (or Thea made with Marjoram) 1 ounce; dissolve in it Salt of Vitriol half a scruple.
| An Errhine of Elaterium. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Elaterium 4 grains; Langius's Water 1 ounce; Oil of Nutmeg 2 drops; mix.
| An Errhine of Juices. | 1710 |
Take leaves of Honey suckle 4 handfuls; Primrose 3 handfuls; Betony 2 handfuls Marjoram 1 handful; stamp these and strain out their Juice.
Essence
| A Cordial Hysteric Essence. | 1710 |
Take the Oil of Cloves 30 drops; Oil of Almonds 6 drops; Oil of Aniseed 4 drops, mix.
Expression
| A Pleuritic Expression. | 1710 |
Take green Dandelion 4 handfuls; bruise, and pour on it red Poppy Water 1 pint, then strain, and add Salt Prunel 1 dram; Crabs Eyes levigated 2 drams; Syrup of red Poppies 3 ounces, mix.
| A Refrigerating Expression. | 1710 |
Take Male Pimpernel 3 handfuls; Borage 6 handfuls; Roots of Borge cut into thin Rundles 2 ounces; Pippins 3; Salt Prunel 2 drams; white Sugar 1 ounce and a half, stamp, and pour on them Meadow Sweet W...
| A Rosaceous Expression. | 1710 |
Take the softest, free, white Chalk powder'd 2 ounces; Bole Armoniac 1 ounce; boil in Water 3 quarts to 1 quart; set it by to subside, then having decanted the clear, put into it conserve of red Roses...
| A Scorbutic temperate Expression. | 1710 |
Take Brooklime, Water Cresses, Dandelion, Cleavers, each 4 handfuls; Oranges cut to pieces with their peel 4; stamp and add white Wine, Elder flower water, each 1 pint; when they have stood a while, s...
| A Styptic Expression. | 1710 |
Take common Daisie; Mousear; Tarrow; Nettle eacch 3 handfuls, having stamp'd them, pour Plantain water 12 ounces; after it hath stood an hour, strain it, and add Salt Prunel 2 drams; Syrup of dyr'd Ro...
| A warm Scorbutic Expression. | 1710 |
Take Scurvy grass, Watercresses, Brooklime, Celandine, each 4 handfuls, to these, when stamp'd, add white Wine half a pint; Horse Radish Water compound; Magistral Worm Water each 4 ounces; after it ha...
| An Expression of Brooklime compound. | 1710 |
Take Brooklime, Water cresses, Borage, Plantain, each 4 handfuls; having stamp'd them in a Stone Mortar, and pour'd on them water 2 quarts; let them stand cold an hour, then strain out the Liquor, and...
| An Expression of Millipedes for a Thin Cough. | 1710 |
Take live Millipedes cleansed 2 ounces; Aniseed 1 dram; Nutmeg half a dram; white sugar 1 ounce; having beat them well, and added Penny royal water 6 ounces; compound Bryony and compound Piony water, ...
| An Expression of Millipedes simple. | 1710 |
Take live Millipedes and white Sugar, each 3 ounces; when they are well beaten and mix'd together in a Mortar, add white Wine 1 pint; and strain and squeeze out the Liquor.
| An Expression of Piony. | 1710 |
Take Male Piony Roots, (fresh taken up and bruised) 4 ounces; Mistletoe cut small, 1 ounce; Canary Wine 1 pint, give them a hot and close infusion for 2 hours, then having wrung out the Liquor, add to...
| An Icteric Expression of Millipedes. | 1710 |
Take live Millipedes 100; Saffron cut small half a scruple; Nutmeg half a dram; white Sugar half an ounce; when these are all well beaten up together, pour on the Mass Celandine (or Cleaver) water 4 o...
| An Icteric Expression. | 1710 |
Take Celandine 2 handfuls Juniper berries 1 ounce; to these well bruis'd, add Saffron (cut small with Scissers) 1 scruple; white Wine (or Rhenish) 1 pint, Aqua Mirabilis 2 ounces; after it hath stood ...
Extract
| A Pectoral Extract. | 1710 |
Take the best Malt can be got, (not burnt in drying) ready ground 1 gasllon and a half; Water 2 gallons; make Ale Wort according to Art.
Foment
| A Camphorate Foment. | 1710 |
Take Vinegar 1 pint; dissolve it over the Fire Nitre 1 ounce; Camphire dram.
| A Colic Foment. | 1710 |
Take Camomile flowers 2 ounces; Juniper and Bay berries, each 1 ounce; Crude Salt Armoniac half an ounce; boil in water 3 quarts to 2 quarts, adding at last, Seeds of sweet Fennel, Caraway, Cummin and...
| A Diuretic Foment. | 1710 |
Take roots of Smalage 4 ounces; roots of Fennel, Linseed, each 2 ounces; Herbs Pellitory of the Wall, Mallows, Arsmart, Camomile flowers, each 2 handfuls; boil in Water 3 quarts to 2 quarts; in the st...
| A Dysenteric Foment. | 1710 |
Take Oak leaves green 10 handfuls; boil them in a close cover'd Pot in a strong Wine Vinegar as much as needful for a Foment, with which let the Anus be fomented, and the hot Vapor received up into it...
| A Foment for a Tympany. | 1710 |
Take Nitre 2 ounces; Salt Armoniac 1 ounce; Spirit of Wine with a great deal of Phlegm in it 1 quart; mix and dissolve in a glass.
| A Foment for Inflammations. | 1710 |
Take the roots of Marsh Mallow, white Lily, each 1 ounce and half; Herbs Mallows, Mullein, Henbane, flowers of Elder, Camomile, Melilot, each 1 handful; Seeds of Flax, Fenugreek, each 6 drams; boil in...
| A Foment for the pain of Haemorrhoids. | 1710 |
Take Onion, Linseed, each 4 ounces; Herbs Henbane, Toad flax, Tarrow, Mullein, each 2 handfuls; boil in Water 3 quarts to 2 quarts; in the strain'd dissolve Opium 2 drams; mix and use it
| A Foment in flux of the Haemorrhoids. | 1710 |
Take Mullein, Tarrow, Plantain, Elder leaves, each 4 handfuls; Pomgranate peel 1 ounce; Boil in Water and rough red Wine, each 3 Pints to 2 quarts; in the strain'd dissolve Alum half an ounce; Sugar o...
| A Foment of Elder. | 1710 |
Take green leaves (or in the Winter time, inner Bark) of Elder 4 handfuls; boil in Water 3 pints to 1 quart; in the strain'd dissolve common Soap 1 ounce.
| A Foment with Bitters. | 1710 |
Take round Birthwort roots 1 ounce; common Wormwood dry'd, Lavender Cotton, Tansy, tops of Savine, each 1 handful; Bears foot half a handfuls; Coloquintida, Aloes, each 1 dram; make a Decoction in Wat...
| A Lateral Foment. | 1710 |
It mollifies, discusses, eases Pain. Is certainly very helpful in a spurious, pituitous or flatulent Pleurisy, where the Matter lieth outward, and there's no great Inflammation, for it relaxeth the ri...
| A Pacific Foment. | 1710 |
Take Vine and Willow leaves, Lettuce, each 2 handfuls; whitewater Lily flowers, red Roses, each 1 handful; white Poppy heads (with the seeds) 2 ounces; boil in Water 1 gallon to 2 quarts; in the strai...
| A Podagric Foment. | 1710 |
Take Ground Pine, Southernwood, each 4 handfuls; boil in Water 3 quarts to 2 quarts; in the strain'd dissolve (168, 169) Salt of Tarter, and Salt Armoniac, each 2 ounces.
| A Scorbutic Foment. | 1710 |
Take Ground Pine, Henbane, each two handfuls; Winters Cinnamon half an ounce; Horse-Radish root, Earth Worms (added at last) each 2 ounces; boil in Limewater 3 pints to 1 quart; to the strain'd add Sp...
| A Splenetic Foment. | 1710 |
Take dry'd Tobacco leaves 1 ounce; infuse warm two hours in Water 2 quarts; in the strain'd dissolve Gum Ammoniac half an ounce.
| A Stomachic Foment. | 1710 |
This is indeed a noble Remedy, notably comforting, warming, strengthening, and is used with good Success, when the Stomach being grown cold and flaccid, is troubles with Flatus, Pain, Queasiness, Vomi...
| An Anodyne Foment. | 1710 |
Take white Poppy heads (cut, and bruis'd with their Seeds) Dill seeds, each 2 ounces; leaves of Henbane, Hounds tongue, common Night shade, each 2 handfuls; boil in Water 3 quarts to 2 quarts, and str...
| An Astringent Foment. | 1710 |
Take Oak bark 2 ounces; Pomegranate peel half an ounce; Balaustines, red Roses dry'd, each 1 handful; boil in Water 2 quarts to 1 quart, stain and add rough red Wine half a pint; to these may also be ...
| An Emmenagogue Foment. | 1710 |
Take roots of white Bryony 4 ounces; round Birthwort 2 ounces; Zedory, Bayberries, each 1 ounce; Herbs Feverfew, Mugwort, Savine tops, Camomile flowers, each 2 handfuls; boil in Water 1 gallon to 5 pi...
Fomentation
| Anodyne Fomentation. | 1785 |
Take of white poppy-heads, two ounces; elder flowers, half an ounce; water, three pints. Boil till one pint is evaporated, and strain out the liquor.
| Aromatic Fomentation. | 1785 |
Take of Jamaica pepper, half an ounce; red wine, a pint. Boil them for a little, and then strain the liquor.
| Common Fomentation. | 1785 |
Take tops of Wormwood and camomile flowers, dried, of each two ounces; water, two quarts. After a slight boiling, pour off the liquor.
| Emollient Fomentation. | 1785 |
This is the same as the common decoction.
| Strengthening Fomentation. | 1785 |
Take of oak bark, one ounce; granate peel, half an ounce; alum, two drachms; smith's forge water, three pints. Boil the water with the bark and peel to the consumption of one third; then strain the re...
Frontal
| A Frontal with Camphir. | 1710 |
Take Camphire 8 grains; Vinegar 1 ounce; red Rose Water 7 ounces; dissolve.
| A Frontal with Mastic. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Mastic, Frankincense, each 2 drams; white Chalk, Bean Meal, each half an ounce; white of Egg well beaten, Oil of Roses, each 6 drams; Vinegar as much as needs to make it fit for spreadin...
| A Frontal with Opium. | 1710 |
Take Breast Milk, white of Egg well beaten, each 1 ounce; Opium 10 grains; Camphire 5 grains; mix and use it to the Forehead cold.
| A Rosaceous Frontal. | 1710 |
Take red Rose Water 4 ounces; Vinegar of Roses 2 ounces; Oil of Roses 1 ounce; white of one Egg, mix.
Fume
| 1. A Fume in a Catarrh. | 1710 |
Take Olibanum, Amber, Benjamin, Storax calamite, Gum of Guaiacum, Balsam of Tolu, each 2 scruples; reduce all into a course Powder to sprinkle upon live Coals for a Smoak.
| 1. An Odiferous Fume. | 1710 |
Take Benjamin 1 ounce; Storax calamite half an ounce; Labdanum 2 drams, Musk, Ambergrise, each 1 grain and half; with mucilage of Gum Tragacanth, make Troches; of which and dust of Willow coals being ...
| 2. A Fume in a Catarrh. | 1710 |
Take Gum Guaiacum, Gum of Juniper, Mastic, Benjamin, Myrrh, Orpiment, each 1 dram; Cloves 2 drams; Balsam of Peru 16 drops; make them into a gross Powder, to be strew'd on Coals to perfume a Night Cap...
| 2. An Odiferous Fume. | 1710 |
Take Cyperous roots 1 ounce and half; Calamus aromatic, Willow coals, each 1 ounce; Storax calamite, Benjamin, each 2 drams; with mucilage of Gum Tragacanth (Extracted with the Spirit of Wine) make Pa...
| A Fume for falling out of the Anus. | 1710 |
Take Male Frankincense, Amber, Cloves, each half a dram; red Roses, Balaustines, each 2 drams; make a gross Powder, the Fume of which is to be receiv'd (after the Anus is put up) through a close Stool...
| A Fume for falling out of the Uterus. | 1710 |
Take Beetles 3 drams; Eel skins minced small 1 dram; make a Powder.
| A Fume in a Consumption. | 1710 |
Take Fistic nut peel, Myrrh, Amber, each 2 drams; Sulphur vive, Orpiment, each 1 dram; make all into a gross Powder, the Smoak of which is to be receiv'd into the Mouth, be the help of a Funnel invers...
| A Fume in a Tenesmus. | 1710 |
Take white Poppy heads half an ounce; Mullein half a handful; red Roses; Balaustines; Frankincense each half a dram; Mastic 1 dram; make a gross Powder; the Smoak whereof ( cast upon the Coals) is to ...
Gargle
| A common Gargle. | 1710 |
Take Plantain water 10 ounces; red Rose water 3 ounces; Syrup of Mulberries 2 ounces; Honey of Roses strained 1 ounce; Oil of Vitriol, as much as serves to give it a fitting acidity.
| A Detergent Gargle. | 1710 |
It deterges, and scours off thick Viscosity, and slimy Nastiness sticking to the Tongue, and parts of the Mouth; humects and refrigerates the Throat, when dry'd up and parch'd; corrects the muriatic A...
| A Gargle for a Quinsy. | 1710 |
Take Columbines 2 handfuls; inner rind of Elm 1 ounce; Jews Ears, Liquorice, Album Graecum, each half an ounce; boil in Water 2 pints and half to 26 ounces; in the strain'd dissolve Salt Armoniac 2 dr...
| A Gargle for Phlegm. | 1710 |
Take Hysop water 10 ounces; Rectify'd Spirit of Wine 1 ounce; Spirit of Scurvy grass half an ounce; Spirit of Castor 2 drams; Spirit of Salt Armoniac 4 scruples; powder'd Pellitory of Spain 1 dram; Ho...
| A Gargle for the Heat of the Mouth. | 1710 |
Take Plantain Water 8 ounces; red Rose water 4 ounces; whites of Eggs beaten thin 4; Salt prunel 4 scruples; Syrup of Marsh Mallows 4 ounces, mix.
| A Gargle for the Uvula. | 1710 |
Take Columbines 4 handfuls, red Roses dry'd, Balaustines, each half a handful; long Pepper 4 scruples; Myrrh 2 drams; boil in Water 1 quart, and white Wine half a pint to 26 ounces; to the strain'd ad...
| A Gargle in the Small Pox. | 1710 |
Take French Barly, Liquorice, each half an ounce; Marsh Mallow roots, Tares, each 1 ounces; Figs 12; Jews Ears 1 handful; boil in Water 2 pints and half to 28 ounces; in the strain'd dissolve Oxymel s...
| A Gargle with Myrrh. | 1710 |
Take red Astringent Wine 1 pint; powder'd Myrrh 2 drams, mix.
| A Gargle with Pellitory. | 1710 |
Take Pellitory of Spain half an ounce; Seeds of white Poppy and Henbane, each 2 drams; Cloves half a dram; white Wine half a pint; Vinegar 4 ounces; boil 'till it come to half a pint; then strain and ...
| A Gargle with Roses. | 1710 |
Take dry'd red Rose flowers 3 drams; Pomgranate flowers and peel, each 2 drams; Myrtle berries, powder'd Bole and Japanic Earth, each 1 dram; Alum 1 scuple; boil in Plantain Water and rough red Wine, ...
| A Gargle with Vine leaves. | 1710 |
Take Vine leaves, Sage, female Fluellin, Cinquefoil, Bramble Buds, each half a handful; boil in Water 1 pint and half to 1 pint, to the strain'd add Alum 1 dram and half; Vinegar, Honey, each 2 ounces...
| A Levigating Gargle. | 1710 |
Take Comfrey roots 2 ounces; Gum Arabic 1 ounces; boil in Barley Water 20 ounces to 12 ounces; strain and red (175, 176) Rose water 1 ounces; Syrup of Marsh Mallows 3 ounces, mix.
| A Paralytic Gargle. | 1710 |
Take white Wine half a pint; Mustard made up as it comes to Tables 2 ounces; Savory (or Thyme) water 4 ounces; Honey of Roses 2 ounces; Vinegar enough to render it pretty Tart, Mix.
| A Refrigerating Gargle. | 1710 |
Take waters of Frogs Spawn, Plantain and Elder flowers, each 4 ounces; red Rose water 2 ounces; whites of Eggs (beat up to Water) 4; white Sugar 1 ounce, mix.
| A Scorbutic Gargle. | 1710 |
Take Madder roots 1 ounce; Pellitory of Spain, Winters Cinnamon, each 2 drams; Honey suckle leaves, Sage, Sanicle, Columbines, each 1 handful; boil in Lime water 2 pints and half to 28 ounces; to the ...
| An Emollient Gargle. | 1710 |
Take Roots of Marsh Mallow, Liquorice, Pearl Barley each 1 ounce; Bran (ty'd up in a Rag) 1 handful; inner Rind of Elm, Gum Arabic each an half an ounce; Figs 8. Boil in Water 3pints, in 28 ounces of ...
| Attenuating Gargle. | 1785 |
Take of water, six ounces; honey, one ounce; nitre, a drachm and a half. Mix them.
| Common Gargle. | 1785 |
Take of rose-water, six ounces; syrup of clove July-flowers, half an ounce; spirit of vitriol, a sufficient quantity to give it an agreeable sharpness. Mix them.
| Detergent Gargle. | 1785 |
Take of the emollient gargle, a pint: tincture of myrrh, an ounce; honey, two ounces. Mix them.
| Emollient Gargle. | 1785 |
Take an ounce of marshmallow roots, and two or three figs; boil them in a quart of water till near one half of it be consumed; then strain out the liquor.
| Gargle of black Thorn. | 1710 |
Take black Thorn bark 2 ounces; boil it in Water 2 pints and half to 24 ounces; in the strain'd dissolve Alum 4 scruples; Vinegar 2 ounces, Honey of Roses 6 ounces.
| Of Gargles. | 1710 |
Now that I may gather up into one View, what I have before scatter'd under several Heads: I'll lay down the following Rules, concerning the several sorts of Gargles, and their skilful choice, accordin...
Glyster
| A Balsamic Glyster. | 1710 |
Take Broth of Sheeps Inwards (or Head) 10 ounces; Yolks of Egss 2; Lucatellus's Balsam 1 ounce; S
| A Carminative Glyster. | 1710 |
Take Camomile Flowers, Bay Berries, each half an ounce; sweet Fennel, and Cummin Seeds (added at last) each 2 Drams; boil in Water to 12 ounces; strain, and add Brandy 2 ounces; Oil Olive 1 ounce; Oil...
| A Colic Glyster. | 1710 |
Take Canary Wine, Linseed Oil, each 6 ounces, Oil of Amber half a dram; to which may be added Liquid Laudanum 40 drops, mix.
| A Comforting Glyster. | 1710 |
Take Canary Wine 1 pint; Diascordium half an ounce; Yolks of Eggs 2, mix.
| A Corroborating Glyster. | 1710 |
Take dry'd Wormwood, Centory, each 1 handful: Camomile flowers, Bay berries, each 3 drams; boil in Sheeps-head-Broth to 10 ounces; to the stain'd add Brandy 2 ounces; Oil of Turpentine and Juniper, ea...
| A Emollient Glyster. | 1710 |
Take Milk 10 ounces; Oil of Camomile 3 ounces; Honey of Herb Mercury, Brown Sugar and Pulp of Cassia, each 1 ounce; Oil of Aniseed half a dram, mix.
| A Febrific Glyster. | 1710 |
Take Peruvian Bark fine powder'd 2 ounces; boil in several Waters 'till it come to half a pint; let it pass through a Sieve, so as to be turbid and add Diascordium half an ounce; Oil of Aniseed 1 drop...
| A Glyster for Infants. | 1710 |
Take new Milk 3 ounces; Oil of sweet Almonds, Syrup of Violets, each half an ounce; Oil of Aniseed 12 drops, mix.
| A Glyster in Gripes. | 1710 |
Take powder'd white Chalk half an ounce; Rue; Camomila flowers, each half a handful; boil in Water half a pint to 4 ounces; to the strain'd add Tincture of Castor 3 drams; Diascordium 2 drams; Syrup o...
| A Glyster of 4 Oils. | 1710 |
Take Oils of Linseed and Camomile each 6 ounces; Oil of Scorpions and Turpentine each 2 drams; mix.
| A Glyster of Bitters. | 1710 |
Take Virginia Snake root powder'd 1 dram; pulp of Coloquintida (tied up in a nodule) 1 scruple; Tansy, Savine tops, each half a handful; decoct in Water to 6 ounces; strain and add Oil of St. John's W...
| A Glyster of Pomgranate. | 1710 |
Take Pomgranate Peel bruised half an ounce; Flowers of the same 1 dram; boil in Milk half a pint to 4 ounces; to the strained add Brandy (or Cinnamon Water) 2 ounces; Diascordium 6 drams; Oil of Nutme...
| A Glyster with Mullein. | 1710 |
Take Mullein, and Elder Flowers, each half a handful; Herbs, Hemlock, Henbane, each 1 handful; boil in Smith's Forge Water to 12 ounces; to the strained add the Yolk of 1 Egg; Linseed Oil 2 ounces; oi...
| A Laxative Glysters. | 1710 |
Take either Chicken, or Veal-Broth 12 ounces; Oil Olive, brown Sugar each 2 ounces; Oil of Anniseed, half a dram, mix.
| A Lenient Glyster. | 1710 |
Take new Milk 10 ounces; Mucilage of Fleawort, and Quince Seeds (extracted in red Poppy Water) 3 ounces; Yolk of 2 Eggs, Diacodium 2 ounces, mix.
| A Nourishing Glyster. | 1710 |
Take Broth made of Sheep's Inwards 10 ounces; Yolks of 3 Eggs; Canary Wine 3 ounces, Juice of Kermes half an ounce, mix.
| A Purging Glyster. | 1710 |
Take of the Decoction for Glysters 12 ounces; Mixture for Glysters 3 ounces, mix.
| A Refrigerating Glyster. | 1710 |
Take of the common Emulsion 12 ounces; Oil of Lilies 4 ounces; Salt Prunel 2 scruples; Sugar of Lead 1 scruple; mix, and inject it milk warm.
| A Saponaceous Glyster. | 1710 |
Take Mallows, Golden Rod, each 1 handful; Juniper and Bay Berries; Daucus and Parsley Seed each 2 drams; boil in Water to 12 ounces; in the strained dissolve Castile Soap half an ounce; Oil of Camomil...
| A Somniferous Glyster. | 1710 |
Take Opium 8 grains; dissolve it in erratic Poppy Water 6 ounces, and add Diascordium half an ounce; the Yolk of 1 Egg, mix and inject lukewarm at sleeping time.
| A Sweet Glyster. | 1710 |
Take New Cows Milk 6 ounces; Melassos 2 ounces, mix.
| A Terebinthine Glyster. | 1710 |
Take Urine of a Man in Health 1 pint; Venice Turpentine (dissolved in 2 Yolks of Eggs) 1 ounce; Oil of Aniseed 1 dram; Melassos 1 ounce, mix.
| An Anodyne Glyster. | 1710 |
Take new Milk half a pint; Brandy 2 ounces; Oil of Aniseed half a dram; Diascordium 6 drams; let it be given lukewarm, just before Sleep and retain'd if possible all Night.
| An Apoplectic Glyster. | 1710 |
Take Pellitory of Spain half an ounce; Coloquintida (tied up in a rag) half a dram; Rue 2 handfuls; boil in Water to 12 ounces; and to the strain'd add Infusion of Crocus Metallorum 3 ounces; Tincture...
| An Epileptic Glyster. | 1710 |
Take Camomile flowers 1 handful; boil in Water to 3 ounces; strain and add Spirit of Hartshorn 8 drops; Oil of Aniseed 5 drops; Honey of Roses 3 drams; the Author saith, there's no need of Yolk of Egg...
| An Hysteric Glyster. | 1710 |
Take round Birthwort and white Bryony roots each half an ounce; Rue, Feverfew, Pennyroyal, Camomile flowers, each half a handful; boil in Water to 1 pint, in which (when strain'd and cold) dissolve As...
| An Oiley Bitter Glyster. | 1710 |
Take Linseed Oil 6 ounces; Coloquintida tied up in a Rag 1 dram and a half; boil a little , and strain it.
| The comon Glyster. | 1710 |
Take of our Decoction for Glysters 12 ounces; Syrup of the Juice of Groundsell (or of Buck-Thorn) salt Butter, brown Sugar, each 1 ounce; Oil of Aniseed 8 drops, mix.
Honey
| Honey of Raisins. | 1710 |
Take Malaga Raisins freed from the Stalks and Stones 2 pound; Currants pick'd and rubb'd clean with a Cloth 1 pound; Jujubes half a pound; beat all in a Marble Mortar, and boil in a convenient quantit...
| Mayern's Honey of Raisins. | 1710 |
Take Raisins stoned and chop'd small 4 pound' Water 6 quarts; macerate them 24 hours; then boil 'till but a third part remains, which strain and boil again, 'till it become as thick as Honey.
Hydrogala
| A Chartaceous Hydrogala. | 1710 |
Take of the finest Writing Paper cut small 4 Sheets, Naple Biskets 2; Spring Water 2 pints and a half; having boil'd it to 1 pint and half and strain'd it, add Milk 1 pint and half, then boil it again...
Hydromel
| 1. A Pectoral Hydromel. | 1710 |
Take Liquorice 2 ounces; Malaga Raisins stoned and cut small 4 ounces; boil in depurate Barly water from 3 pints to 1 quart; to the strain'd add Honey 2 ounces, and boil again 'till it be well despuma...
| 2. Pectoral Hydromel. | 1710 |
Take Pearl Barley, Malaga Raisins stoned, each half an ounce; Figs 4; Liquorice 2 drams; Roots of Elecampane, Orris, Calamus Aromaticus and dry'd Tobacco, each 1 dram; Colts foot, Ground Ivy, Rocket, ...
| A Diuretic Hydromel. | 1710 |
Take roots of Madder, Fennel, each 1 ounce; Parsly 2 ounces; Bay and Juniper berries, each half an ounce; Daucus and Sweet Fennel Seeds, each 2 drams; boil in Water 2 pints and half to 28 ounces; to t...
| An Hydromel of Cherries. | 1710 |
Take Spring Water 6 quarts; Honey 1 quart; when its boil'd to a perfect Despumation, add Juice of red Cherries 1 quart; and boil it a little more, scumming it carefully.
| Joel's Hydromel. | 1710 |
Take Zedoary half an ounce; Gum Ammoniac (not strain'd) 2 drams; Flour of Sulphur 3 drams; clarify'd Honey 2 ounces; Water i pint; boil (without scumming it) to 12 ounces; at the latter end, adding Sa...
| Simple Hydromel. | 1710 |
Take pure Spring Water 2 quarts; Honey half a pound; boil it 'till its thoroughly scummed.
Infusion
| A Bitter Chalybeat Infusion. | 1710 |
Take Alexiterial Milk water 1 pint and half; Mint, Genetian compound, Magistral Worm water, each 4 ounces; Gentian root 4 scruples; tops of Carduus, Centory and Camomile flowers, each 8 scruples; afte...
| A Bitter Infusion. | 1710 |
Take common Water distl'd 2 quarts; Brandy half a pint; Salt of Tarter 32 grains; Gentian root 3 drams; tops of Carduus, Centory, Camomile flowers, each 6 drams; Cochineal 2 scruples; infuse in Balneo...
| A Cardiac Infusion. | 1710 |
Take conserve of red Roses 1 ounce; conserve of Borage flowers 2 ounces; candy'd Citron peel, beat to a Mash 6 drams; pour on them Borage water 9 ounces; Meadow sweet water 3 ounces; Damask Rose water...
| A Cephalic Infusion. | 1710 |
Take dry Peacocks dung (the white part) 4 ounces; Millepedes alive bruised 1 ounce; black Cherry water, white Wine, each 1 pint and half; let them stand cold 24 hours, then having clarify'd it, by oft...
| A Purging Infusion. | 1710 |
Take Senna 1 ounce; white Tartar powder'd half an ounce; Elder flower water, white Wine, each half a pint; infuse warm and close in a glass, or glased (but not Brass) Vessel, 12 hours: To 12 ounces of...
| A Red Infusion. | 1710 |
Take Diascordium half an ounce; Cochineal 2 scruples; Cloves 1 scruple; red Lisbon Wine 6 ounces; Cinnamon Water 2 ounces; let all stand at the Fire stopp'd close 2 hours. Strain and add Syrup of Quin...
| A Refrigerating Infusion. | 1710 |
Take green Fig leaves 1 ounce; common Daisy roots 6 drams; Contrayerva 2 drams; Spring water 1 pint; brandy 2 ounces; Salt of Tartar 1 scruple; make a warm and close Infusion, which strain and edulcor...
| A Styptic Infusion. | 1710 |
Take stinging Nettle-Roots 4 ounces; Salt Prunel half an ounce; Juice of Nettle 2 ounces; Spring water 1 quart; make a warm Infusion for 12 Hours; then strain, and add Syrup of Marsh- Mallows, (or of ...
| A Traumatic Infusion. | 1710 |
Take green Twigs of woody Nightshade (cut like Sarsaparilla) 4 ounce; Cochineal 1 scruple; White-wine 1 quart; infuse hot and close, all Night; then having strained out the Liquor, add Syrup of Ground...
| An Anthelminthic Infusion. | 1710 |
Take Wormseed bruis'd half an ounce; Mint Water 4 ounces; Gentian Compound and Cinnamon water, each 2 ounces; infuse hot for an hour; then strain and add Syrup of Succory with Rhubarb 2 ounces; Oil of...
| An Arthritic Infusion. | 1710 |
Take ground Pine (dry'd, washed and bruis'd) 1 ounce; Lavender flowers dry'd, Venice Treacle, each half a ounce; stout, strong, red Wine 1 quart; infuse hot 2 hours and strain.
| An Epileptic Infusion. | 1710 |
Take Misselto cut and bruis'd 4 ounces; juice of Rue 1 ounce; Brandy 4 ounces; Spring water 28 ounces; Salt of Tartar 2 scruples; infuse in a gentle heat 12 hours: Let the strain'd subside, 'till depu...
| An Infusion for a Colic. | 1710 |
Take Zedoary root contused 2 ounces; Canary Wine, Brandy, each half a pint; macerate in a gentle heat 12 hours. To the strain'd add Oil of Juniper 16 drops; Oil of Cloves 4 drops; fine Sugar 1 ounce, ...
| An Infusion of Camomile. | 1710 |
Take distil'd Water 1 quart; Brandy 4 ounces; Slat of Tarter 2 scruples; Camomile flowers dry'd and bruis'd 2 ounces; infuse warm 12 hours, and decant the clear through a Flannel strainer.
| An Infusion of Rhubarb compound. | 1710 |
Take Rhubarb sliced thin 2 drams; yellow Mirobalans bruised 1 dram; Salt of Wormwood 15 grains; Plantain and Cinnamon water, each 2 ounces; infuse warm and close a Nights space, then having strain'd i...
| An Infusion with Roses Compound. | 1710 |
Take Red Roses, Balaustines, each 2 drams; oak Bark half an ounce; Spring Water 1 quart; give it a warm Infusion for 12 hours; then strain, and add Barly Cinnamon Water, 4 ounces; White Sugar 2 ounces...
| Bitter Infusion. | 1785 |
Take tops of the lesser centaury and camomile flowers, of each half an ounce; yellow rind of lemon and orange peel, carefully freed from the inner white part, of each two drachms. Cut them in small pi...
| Infusion for The Palsy. | 1785 |
Take of horse-radish root shaved, mustard seed bruised, each four ounces; outer rind of orange-peel, one ounce. Infuse them in two quarts of boiling water, in a close vessel, for twenty-four hours.
| Infusion of Carduus. | 1785 |
Infuse an ounce of the dried leaves of carduus benedictus in a pint of common water, for six hours, without heat; then filter the liquor through paper.
| Infusion of Linseed. | 1785 |
Take of linseed, two spoonfuls; liquorice root, sliced, half an ounce; boiling water, three pints. Let them stand to infuse by the fire for some hours, and then strain off the liquor.
| Infusion of Roses. | 1785 |
Take of red roses, dried, half an ounce; boiling water, a quart; vitriolic acid, commonly called oil of vitriol, half a drachm; loaf sugar, an ounce.
| Infusion of Tamarinds and Senna. | 1785 |
Take of tamarinds, one ounce; senna, and crystals of tartar, each two drachms. Let these ingredients be infused four or five hours in a pint of boiling water; afterwards let the liquor be strained, an...
| Infusion of the Bark. | 1785 |
To an ounce of the bark, in powder, add four or five table-spoonfuls of brandy, and a pint of boiling water. Let them infuse for two or three days.
| Spanish Infusion. | 1785 |
Take of spanish juice, cut into small pieces, an ounce; salt of tartar, three drachms. Infuse in a quart of boiling water for a night. To the strained liquor add an ounce and a half of the syrup of po...
| The Infusion of Roses simple. | 1710 |
Take Conserve of red Roses 4 ounces; Oil of Sulphur 48 drops (or as much as suffices to bring it to a fit acidity) Spring Water 1 quart; macerate warm all Night; in the Morning run it, till clear, thr...
| The Spanish Infusion. | 1710 |
Take Spring Water 3 pints; Salt of Tarter half an ounce; Saffron (snip'd small with Scissers half a dram; Spanish Juice of Liquorice, sliced thin, 1 ounce; digest warm, and close 24 Hours; And then st...
Juice
| Attempering Juice. | 1710 |
Take Dandelion, as much as you think fit, pound it to a Mash, put it into a glazed Pipkin with a Cover, stop it up with Past, set it in an Oven after the Bread is drawn; let it stand in six hours, the...
| Juice for the Haemorrhoids. | 1710 |
Take the Juice of Yarrow depurated, 1 pint; White Sugar 2 ounces, mix.
| Juices for a Dropsie. | 1710 |
Take green Plantain Leaves 4 handfuls; Liverwort, Brooklime, each 2 handfuls, having pounded them in a Stone-Mortar, add Horse-Radish water compound, half a pint, and wring it out hard through a Cloth...
| Scorbutic Juices. | 1710 |
Take Juice of Plantain, Brooklime, Water Cresses, Dandelion, each 1 pint; of Sorrel, Lemons, and Whitewine, each half a pint, let it stand (in a Cellar) till the thick part subside; then having decant...
Julep
| A Camphorated Julep. | 1710 |
Take Water of Elder Berries and Black Cherries, each 6 ounces; compound Bryony Water 1 ounce; then fire 4 scruples of Camphire, and quench it in this Mixture; fire and quench it again and again, till ...
| A Carminitive Julep. | 1710 |
Take White Wine 4 ounces; Waters of Camomile Flowers and Rue, each 3 ounces; compoud Piony water 1 ounce and half; White Sugar 6 drams; Oil of Juniper 24 drops, mix.
| A Cephalic Julep. | 1710 |
Take Waters of Black Cherries 4 ounces; of Rue 3 ounces; Piony compound 2 ounces; Bryony compound 1 ounce; Tincture of Castor, Spirit of Lavender compound, each 2 drams; Oil of Nutmeg 4 drops; Syrup o...
| A Chalybeate Julep. | 1710 |
Take Fennel and Parsly Water, each 12 ounces; Salt of Steel 2 drams, having throughly dissolved it at the Fire; set it by 24 hours, and poured off the clear, add to it compound Radish Water, Syrup of ...
| A Cordial Julep. | 1710 |
Take Waters of Baulm, Black Cherries, each 3 ounces; of Barly Cinnamon 2 ounces; Epidemial 1 ounce and half; of Piony compound, Syrup of Gillyflowers, each 1 ounce; Syrup of Lemons half an ounce; Conf...
| A Diuretic Acid Julep. | 1710 |
Take Rhenish Wine 1 pint; depurated Juices of Pellitory of the Wall, and of Lemons each 2 ounces; Cleaver Water, French Brandy, Syrup of the Five opening Roots, each 4 ounces, mix.
| A Diuretic Aromatic Julep. | 1710 |
Take White Wine 8 ounces; Fennel Water 4 ounces; Radish Water compound 3 ounces; Tincture of Salt of Tarter half an ounce; Oil of Juniper 24 drops; Oil of Aniseed, Oil of Nutmeg, each 8 drops; White S...
| A Diuretic Nitrous Julep. | 1710 |
Take Water of Cleavers 20 ounces: of Horse-Radish compound, Syrup of Marsh Mallows, each 6 ounces; Salt Prunel half an ounce; salt of Amber 2 scruples, mix.
| A Golden Julep. | 1710 |
Take Canary Wine 1 pint; Cloves bruised half a dram; Saffron clipped small half a scruple; digest close in Balneo an hour; to the strained add Spirit of Clary (ennobled with Essence of Ambergrise) hal...
| A Julep for Child-Bed Women. | 1710 |
Take waters of Baulm, and Black Cherries, each 3 ounces; of Barly Cinnamon, and Dr. Stephens's waters, and Syrup of Meconium, each 2 ounces; Liquid Laudanum 40 drops, mix.
| A Julep of Propriety. | 1710 |
Take Canary Wine 10 ounces; Mint water 2 ounces; compound Gentian water 4 ounces; powdered Cloves 2 scruples; Spanish Angelica Root 4 scruples; give it a warm and close Infusion for 2 hours; to the st...
| A Julep with Houseleek. | 1710 |
Take Frog Spawn Water 8 ounces; Juice of Houseleek depurated, Syrup of Lemons, each 2 ounces, mix.
| A Julep with Raspberries. | 1710 |
Take Canary Wine 4 ounces; Orris-root sliced thin 4 scruples; infuse in a gentle heat an hour; to the strained add waters of Damask Roses 4 ounces; of Barly Cinnamon 2 ounces; Calestis, Spirit of Clar...
| A Musk Julep for Children. | 1710 |
Take Black Cherry Water 2 ounces and half; compound Piony Water half an ounce; compound Spirit of Lavender 12 drops; Musk (ground on a Marble with Salt of Harts-horn 1 grain, and white Sugar candy 1 d...
| A Musk Julep. | 1710 |
Take Waters of Damask Roses 6 ounces; of Orange Flowers, Piony compound, each 1 ounce; of Barly Cinnamon 2 ounces; Calestis half an ounce; Musk, Ambergrise (both ground with Salt of Harts-horn 1 grain...
| A Pearl Antiphthisic Julep. | 1710 |
Take of our Pectoral Snail Water 8 ounces; Barly Cinnamon water 6 ounces; Syrup of Balsam 2 ounces; Pearl prepared 4 scruples; Oil of Nutmeg 1 drop, mix.
| A Pearl Hysteric Julep. | 1710 |
Take waters of Black Cherries, and Mugwort, each 3 ounces; Pennyroyal, Rue, Bryony compound, each 2 ounces; Pearl prepared 1 dram; white Sugar candy 3 drams, mix.
| A Pectoral Julep. | 1710 |
Take Waters of Fennel 6 ounces; of Pennyroyal, Hysop, each 2 ounces; Sweet Tincture , and Tincture of Saffron (made in Treacle Water) each 1 ounce; Oil of Anniseed 12 drops; white Sugar 6 drams; Spiri...
| A Pleuritic Julep. | 1710 |
Take Erratic Poppy water 6 ounces; Coltsfoot Water 4 ounces; Syrup of Erratic Poppies 2 ounces; Salt of Prunel, Goats Blood, each 4 scruples, mix.
| A Refrigerating Julep. | 1710 |
Take waters of Purslane, Borage, Wood Sorrel, each 4 ounces; Damask Rose water, Juice of Lemons (fresh drawn, clear, and not musty), 1 ounces; Syrup of Raspberries 2 ounces, mix.
| A Scorbutic Julep. | 1710 |
Take Elder Flower water 20 ounces; Horse Radish water compound, Syrup of Elder-berries, each 6 ounces Spirit of Scurvygrass half an ounce; Oil of Sassafras 4 drops, mix.
| A Splanchnic Julep. | 1710 |
Take waters of Cuckowpint, Fumitory, Elder Flowers, each 6 ounces; Gentian compound, magistral Worm water, Syrup of the 5 opening Roots, each 4 ounces; Tincture of Salt of Tartar 1 ounce and half; Spi...
| A Stomachic Julep. | 1710 |
Take Sherry Wine, Barly Cinnamon water, each 4 ounces; waters of Mint, Gentian compound, Wormwood compound, Syrup of Quinces, each 2 ounces; Oil of Cloves, Nutmegs, each 2 drops, mix. Venice Treacle 2...
| A Styptic Julep. | 1710 |
Take Plantain water 6 ounces; Frog Spawn water 4 ounces; Syrup of Coral compound 2 ounces; Japanic Earth, Astringent Crocus of Mars, each 2 scruples; Sugar of Lead 6 grains; Liquid Laudanum 40 drops, ...
| A Temperate Cordial Julep. | 1710 |
Take Damask Rose Water 8 ounces; stromg Cinnamon Water 2 ounces; Rhenish Wine 4 ounces; Juice of Orange and White Sugarcandy, each 1 ounce; burnt Harts horn finely levigated 4 scruples, mix.
| A Temperate Pearl Cordial Julep. | 1710 |
Take waters of Borage, Woodsorrel, each 4 ounces; Damask Rose, and Barly Cinnamon water, each 2 ounces; Pearl prepared 1 dram; white Sugar candy 3 drams; Oil of Nutmeg 1 drop, mix.
| A Warm Pearl Cordial Julep. | 1710 |
Take Black Cherry, and Alexiterial Milk water, each 4 ounces; Barly Cinnamon water 2 ounces; Epidemial, compound Piony water, each 1 ounce; Pearl prepared 1 dram; white Sugar candy 3 drams, mix.
| An Acid Julep. | 1710 |
Take pure Spring Water (boiled half away) 28 ounces, Syrup of Violets 3 ounces; Syrup of Gilly Flowers (or Raspberries) 1 ounce; Spirit of Vitriol, as much as serves to make it pleasantly tart, mix.
| An Alexiterial Julep. | 1710 |
Take Alexiterial Milk Water, black Cherry Water, each 4 ounces; Rue Water 3 ounces; Epidemial 2 ounces; Tincture of Saffron (extracted in Treacle water) 1 ounce; Syrup of Gilly- flowers 2 ounces; Goa,...
| An Amber Julep. | 1710 |
Take Waters of Parsley, and Fennel, each 4 ounces; Magistral Worm, and Horse-Radish compound Waters, each 1 ounce; Syrup of the 5 Roots 2 ounces; Salt of Amber half a Dram, mix.
| An Antemetic Julep. | 1710 |
Take Oak Bud, and Barly Cinnamon Water, each 3 ounces; Gentian and Wormwood Waters (both compound), Syrup of lemons, each 2 ounces; Salt of Wormwood 2 scruples; Liquid Laudanum 40 drops, mix.
| An Astringent Julep. | 1710 |
Take Waters of Plantain, and Oak Buds,each 4 ounces; Mint Water half an ounce; strong Cinnamon Water 2 ounces; Syrup of dried Roses 1 ounce and half; Diascordium, Bole, each 4 scruples; Japanic Earth ...
| An Emmenagogue Julep. | 1710 |
Take Waters of Pennyroyal 3 ounces; of Bryony compound 2 ounces; Whitewine 6 ounces; Oil of Savine 12 drops; Oil of Cloves 8 drops; white Sugar 1 ounce, mix.
| An Epileptic Julep. | 1710 |
Take fine powdered Bark of Peru 6 drams, and Virginia Snake Root 2 drams; Waters of Black Cherries, and Lime Flowers, each 8 ounces; of Rue and Goat's Rue, each 3 ounces; of Piony compound 2 ounces; E...
| An Hysteric Julep. | 1710 |
Take Waters of Black Cherries, Mugwort, Pennyroyal, each 3 ounces; of Bryony compound 1 ounces and half; Tincture of Castor half an ounce; Oil of Amber (ground very well together with white Sugar, 1 o...
| Camphorated Julep. | 1785 |
Take of camphor, one drachm; gum arabic, half an ounce; double-refined sugar, an ounce; vinegar, a pint. Grind the camphor with a few drops of rectified spirit of wine, till it grows soft; then add th...
| Cordial Julep. | 1785 |
Take of simple cinnamon-water, four ounces; Jamaica pepper-water, two ounces; volatile aromatic spirit, and compound spirit of lavender, of each two drachms; syrup of orange-peel, an ounce. Mix them.
| Expectorating Julep. | 1785 |
Take of the emulsion of gum ammoniac, six ounces; syrup of squills, two ounces. Mix them.
| Musk Julep. | 1785 |
Rub half a drachm of musk well together with half an ounce of sugar, and add to it, gradually, of simple cinnamon and pepper-mint water, each two ounces; of the volatile aromatic spirit, two drachms.
| Saline Julep. | 1785 |
Dissolve two drachms of salt of tartar in three ounces of fresh juice, strained; when the effervescence is over, add, of mint-water, and common water, each two ounces; of simple syrup, one ounce.
| Vomiting Julep. | 1785 |
Dissolve four grains of emetic tartar in eight ounces of water, and add to it half an ounce of the syrup of clove July-flowers.
Lambative
| Notes concerning Pectorals | 1710 |
And here, for a Conclusion to the Lambatives, I freely communicate two or three Notes concerning Pectorals, which perhaps are not clearly and distinctly understood by every one, and may possibly be wo...
Laudanum
| An Hysteric Laudanum. | 1710 |
Take London Laudanum, Asa Foetida, each 2 grains; Oil of Amber 1 drop, make 2 Pills for one Dose.
Lavament
| An Hydropic Lavament. | 1710 |
Take rectified Spirit of Wine 3 ounces; Spirit of Lavender 1 ounce; Pil Cochiae the greater half an ounce; Crude Opium 2 drams, mix.
Liniment
| A Cephalic Liniment. | 1710 |
Take Oil of Nutmeg by Expression, and Palm Oil, each 1 dram and half; Chymical Oil of Cloves, Rosemary and Sage, each 1 scruple, mix.
| A Frontale Liniment. | 1710 |
Take Oinment of Alabaster 2 drams; Oil of Roses 6 drams; Opium 16 grains; Camphire 8 grains; Oil of Nutmeg 4 drops, mix.
| A Lateral Liniment. | 1710 |
Take Ointment of Marshmallows 6 drams; Oil of Lilies and Bricks, each 3 drams; Camphire half a dram, mix.
| A Liniment with Alum. | 1710 |
Take crude and burnt Alum, each 2 drams; Bole, Japanic Earth, each 1 dram; Oil of Sassafras 6 drops; Honey of Roses as much as suffices, mix.
| A Liniment with Gum Lac. | 1710 |
Take Gum Lac 1 dram and half; burnt Alum 1 scruple; Salt 15 grains; Honey of Roses 6 drams, mix.
| A Paralytic Liniment. | 1710 |
Take Ointment called Martiatum 2 ounces; Oil of Spike, petroleum, each 3 drams; powdered Euphorbium 1 scruple; Oil of Amber 1 dram and half; Oil of Rosemary half a dram, mix.
| A Spinale Liniment. | 1710 |
Take Urine of a healthy Person, Tent Wine, Neatsfoot Oil, each 2 ounces; Sperma Ceti 2 drams; Mace 1 dram; boil to 4 ounces and strain.
| An Haemorrhoidal Liniment. | 1710 |
Take Poplar Ointment 2 drams; Oil of Eggs 6 drams; Sugar of Lead 2 scruples; Opium 8 grains; Oil of Amber 16 drops, mix.
| Joel's Liniment. | 1710 |
Take Verdigrise 1 dram; Honey of Roses 1 ounce; Vineger half an ounce; boil to the Consumption of the Vineger, and when it's cold, add powdered burnt Alum 2 scruples; Mastick, Frankincense, and Myrrh,...
Litus
| A Litus for the Face. | 1710 |
Take Ox Galls 3, rectify'd Spirit of Wine 3 pints; having extracted a Tincture, and exhaled to the consistence of Honey; dissolve it in Juice of Lemons 2 ounces; and add powder'd Calomel 3 drams; Salt...
Lixivium
| An Hydropic Lixivium. | 1710 |
Take sifted Ashes of Broom and Bean stalks, each 2 ounces; Juice of Parsley 4 ounces; white Wine 2 quarts; make a Lixivium, to which (when strain'd and clear) add Salt of Tartar 1 dram; Sassaphras 1 o...
Lohoch
| A Balsamic Lohoch. | 1710 |
Take Balsam of Tolu (powder'd, searced and subacted with Yolk of an Egg) half an ounce; Lohoch Sanans 1 ounce; Balsam of Peru 4 drops; Syrup of Coltsfoot flowers, as much as needs, mix.
| A Bechic Lohoch. | 1710 |
Take powdered and searced black Bechic Troches 2 drams; Lohoch Sanans half an ounce; Syrup of Jujubes as much as sufficient, mix.
| A common Lohoch. | 1710 |
Take powder'd white Bechic Troches 3 drams; Oil of sweet Almonds, Syrup of Marsh Mallows, each 1 ounce and half, mix.
| A Green Lohcoch. | 1710 |
Take fine Venice Soap scraped thin 2 scruples; Oil of sweet Almonds, Syrup of Violets, each 1 ounce, mix.
| A Incrassating Lohoch. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Marsh Mallow root 3 drams; Flower of Sulphur 1 dram; Gum Arabick half a dram; white of Eggs beaten up 1 ounce; Syrup of Marsh Mallows as much as wants to mix it into due Consistence.
| A Japanic Lohoch. | 1710 |
Take powder'd and searced Japanic Earth 2 drams; white of Egg beaten 6 drams; Syrup of Comfrey sufficient to give it due Consistence, mix.
| A Levigating Lohoch. | 1710 |
Take Syrup of Marsh Mallows, white of Eggs beaten to Water, each 1 ounce; Sugar Penids half an ounce, mix. < In Fevers its a singular help and comfort, against Heat, Siccity, Roughness, Hardness, Exco...
| A Lohoch of Myrrh. | 1710 |
Take Myrrh well powdered 2 drams; Saffron half a scruple; Nutmeg half a dram; Honey 2 ounces, mix.
| A Lohoch with Elecampane. | 1710 |
Take powdered Elecampane, Orris, Liquorice, Japanic Earth, each 2 drams; Oil of Aniseed 2 drops; Syrup of Meconium 3 ounces, or as much as sufficient to mix.
| A Lohoch with Garlic. | 1710 |
Take Lohoch Sanans 1 ounce and half; Garlic candy'd (as in Pharmac. Bat.) half an onnce; Gum Ammoniac (dissolv'd in white Wine, and strain'd) 1 dram; powder of Arum Compound, Myrrh, each half a dram, ...
| A Lohoch with Linseed Oil. | 1710 |
Take Linseed Oil new drawn, white Sugar Candy powder'd and searced, Syrup of Ground Ivy, each half an ounce; powder'd Orris 1 dram; Flower of Sulphur half a dram; Tincture of Gum Ammoniac 12 drops; Oi...
| A Lohoch with Olibanum. | 1710 |
Take powdered Olibanum 1 dram; Balaustines 1 scruple; Honey of Roses 2 ounces; Spirit of Vitriol, enough to give it a convenient Acidity, mix.
| A Lohoch with Sperma Ceti. | 1710 |
Take white Bechic Troches, Sperma Ceti, each 1 dram and half; Oil of Sweet Almonds, Syrup of Balsam, each one ounce and half; Conserve of Hips 6 drams, mix.
| A Mucilaginous Lohoch. | 1710 |
Take Seeds of Fleabane and Quinces, each 1 dram and half; decoct in a due quantity of Rosewater to the Extraction of the Mucilage: to 4 ounces of which strained, add one White of Egg beaten, and white...
| A Peruvian Lohoch. | 1710 |
Take Lohoch Sanans 1 ounce and half; Balsam of Peru 1 dram and half; Yolk of Egg half an ounce, mix.
| A Pleuritic Lohoch. | 1710 |
Take Syrup of erratic Poppies, Linseed Oil, each 2 ounces; Oil of Aniseed 2 drops; white Sugar 2 drams, mix.
| A Red Lohoch. | 1710 |
Take Conserve of Hips half an ounce; Syrup of Elder Berries, Oil of Sweet Almonds, each 1 ounce, mix.
| A Styptic Lohoch. | 1710 |
Take Syrup of Comfry, Linseed Oil, each 1 ounce; Astringent Crocus of Steel 4 scruples; Sugar of Lead 1 scruple; powdered white Sugar candy 1 dram and half, mix.
| An Apophlegmatic Lohoch. | 1710 |
Take Syrup of Hyssop 2 ounces and a half; Oil of sweet Almonds 1 ounce; Oil of Anniseed 2 drops; Tincture of Myrrh 1 dram; powder'd Orris root 4 scruples; Flower of Benjamin half a scruple; Tobacco 4 ...
| An Asthmatic Lohoch. | 1710 |
Take Syrup of Ground Ivy, Horehound, each 1 ounce and half; Oxymel simple 1 ounce; Powder of Arum compound, of Orris and Gum Ammoniac (dissolv'd in Cinnamon Water, and strain'd) each 1 dram; Elixir Pr...
| An Oleous Lohoch. | 1710 |
Take Oil of Sweet Almonds, Syrup of Maiden Hair, each 1 ounce and half; white Sugar candy powdered and searced 1 ounce; powdered Liquorice half an ounce, mix.
| Haly's Lohoch. | 1710 |
Take Haly's Powder, fresh made up half an ounce; Diacodium 1 ounce and half; or as much as is sufficient, mix
| Lucatellus's Lohoch. | 1710 |
Take conserve of red Roses 2 ounces; conserve of Hips 1 ounce; Lucatellus's Balsam (made with Dragons Blood instead of Sanders) 3 drams; Syrup of Comfrey sufficient to give it a due Body, mix.
Lotion
| A Camphorated Lotion. | 1710 |
Take Camphire cut into thin slices 2 drams; grind it in a Glass Mortar, pouring into it (by little and little) Juice of Lemons 1 ounce; when it's dissolved, add White Wine 1 pint, strain; and having t...
| A Cephalic Lotion. | 1710 |
Take Bay leaves, Betony, Vervain, Marjoram, Rosemary, Lavender, each 2 handfuls; boil in Lixivium of Wood Ashes 3 quarts to two quarts, adding at last powdered Cloves and Nutmeg, each 2 drams, strain.
| A Lotion for the Face. | 1710 |
Take Litharge of Silver powdered, half an ounce; Vinegar 4 ounces; boil to the Evaporation of a third part. And in another Vessel boil Alum and Salt, each half an ounce, in Rosewater half a pint, till...
| A Lotion for the Feet. | 1710 |
Take White Poppy heads (bruised together with their Seed) 4 ounces; Willow leaves, Lettuce, Mallows, and Violet leaves, each 2 handfuls; boil in Water and Milk, each 5 pints, to a Gallon; strain and d...
| A Mercurial Lotion. | 1710 |
Take Mercury sublimate powdered 1 ounce; put it into a pewter Pot with Water 3 pints; let it stand (now and then stirring it with a Stick) 24 hours 'till it look black, and continue so; at last filtre...
Lozenge
| Balsamic Lozenges. | 1710 |
Take fine Dragons Blood (in drops) 2 scurples [sic]; Flowers of Benjamin 16 grains; Balm of Gilead 24 grains; fine Sugar searced 4 ounces; Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth as much as requisite, make Lozenge...
| Black Pectoral Lozenges. | 1710 |
Take fine powder'd Sugar 1 pound; Spanish Juice of Liquorice 4 ounces; Balsam of Sulphur anisated 1 dram; make it into Lozenges with Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth, extracted in Fennel Water.
| Cardiac Lozenges. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Spanish Angelica root, Species called Diambra, each half dram; Oil of Nutmegs 4 drops; Oil of Cinnamon and Cloves, each 2 drops; fine Sugar (dissolved in Aqua Mirabilis) 3 ounces, make i...
| Cephalic Lozenges. | 1710 |
Take powder called de Gutteta, Native Cinnaber, each 2 scruples; Oil of Rosemary and Nutmeg, each 2 drops; fine Sugar 2 ounces; make all up into Lozenges with Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth.
| Haemoptoic Lozenges. | 1710 |
Take Earth from Japan 2 drams; Astringent Saffron of Steel 1 dram; Sugar of Lead, Starch, each half a dram; fine Sugar 4 ounces; Mucilage of Gum Dragacanth, enough to make up Lozenges with.
| Hysteric Lozenges. | 1710 |
Take Loaf Sugar 4 ounces; put 2 or 3 spoonfuls of Water to it, boil it up to a Tablet heighth; then add Oil of Amber 8 drops; and so drop it in small Cakes, on a cold pewter Plate.
| Lozenges for a Catarrh. | 1710 |
Take Spanish Juice of Liquorice 2 ounces; white Sugar 4 ounces; Opium 1 dram; beat all exactly well, so as to mix the Opium intimately and with Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth, form the Mass into Lozenges.
| Lozenges of Elder. | 1710 |
Take Juice of Elder berries as much as you please, make it up into a Paste, with powder'd Tormentile roots, bake it in an Oven: Then having powder'd it, wet it with the same Juice, and bake it again, ...
| Paralytic Lozenges. | 1710 |
Take fine powder'd and searced Sugar 1 ounces; Spirit of Lavender compound 60 drops; Oil of Rosemary 4 drops; make it up with Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth into little Lozenges.
| Pectoral Lozenges. | 1710 |
Take powder'd roots of Orris, Liquorice, Elecampane, each half a dram; Flower of Sulphur 1 scruple; Flower of Benjamin half a scruple; Oil of Amber 2 drops; Oil of Aniseed 4 drops; fine powder'd and s...
| Peruvian Antihectic Lozenges. | 1710 |
Take fine powder'd Bark of Peru 1 ounce and half; Balsam of Capive 2 drams ; Sugar of Roses (dissolv'd in compound Wormwood Water) 8 ounces; with Mucilage of Gum Tragacanth make Lozenges, each weighin...
Masticatory
| Masticatories. | 1710 |
Take Pellitory of Spain powder'd half an ounce; Mastick 2 drams; Oil of Cloves and of wild Marjoram, each 3 drams; Oxymel of Squills, and Wax, each as much as needful to make it into Pellets.
Mixture
| 1. A Colic Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Tincture of Rhubarb simple 1 ounce and half; powder'd Rhubarb half a dram; Syrup of Roses solutive half an ounce ; powder'd long Pepper 3 grains; Oil of Anise 2 drops, mix.
| 1. Expectorating Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Tincture of Benjamin half an ounce; Tincture of Saffron (extracted in Spirit of Wine) Tinctures of Myrrh, of Gum Ammoniac and Spirit of Salt Armoniac, each 1 dram; Hyssop Water 6 ounces; Magistra...
| 2. Colic Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Mint Water half an ounce; strong Cinnamon Water 1 ounce and half; Elixir Proprietatis tartarised 1 dram; Oil of Juniper 2 drops; powdered Rhubarb 1 scruple (or half a dram;) Salt of Wormwood half...
| 2. Expectorating Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Hyssop Water 8 ounces; Tincture of Benjamin half an ounce; Tincture of Gum Ammoniac, Spirit of Salt Armoniac, each 40 drops; Oil of Anise 8 drops; white Sugar 1 ounce, mix.
| A Balsamic Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Balsam of Capive half an ounce; dissolve it in the Yolks of 2 Eggs, and add white Sryrup 2 ounces; white Wine 8 ounces; at last strain it.
| A Balsamic Nephritic Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Balsam of Captive half an ounce; Oil of Juniper half a dram; dissolve it in the Yolks of 2 Eggs, and add Syrup of Marsh Mallows compound 2 ounces and a half; Arsmart Water 10 ounces, mix.
| A Bechic Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Syrup of Meconium 1 ounce and half; Fracastorius's Electuary, Mithridate, each 1 dram; Lohoch Sanans 2 drams; Penny- royal Water 4 ounces, mix.
| A Cardiac Aquose Mixture. | 1710 |
Take black Cherry and Alexiterial Milk Water, each 12 ounces; Barley Cinnamon, Epidemial Water, each 8 ounces; Aqua Caelestis 2 ounces, mix.
| A Cardiac Edulcorating Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Syrup of Gilly flowers 4 ounces; of Raspberries 1 ounce and half; Confection of Alkermes half an ounce; Oil of Nutmegs 4 drops, mix.
| A Cardiac Oleose Mixture. | 1710 |
Take the Yolks of 2 Eggs, Oyl of Cinnamon, Nutmegs, each 4 drops; refined Sugar half an ounce; Juice of Kermes 2 drams; Canary Wine 8 ounces, mix and strain.
| A Carminative Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Canary and white Wine, each 6 ounces; Spirit of Wine rectify'd 2 ounces; the Yolk of 1 Egg; fine Sugar 1 ounce; Oil of Juniper 32 drops; Oil of Nutmeg, Caraway, Fennel and Anise, each 8 drops, mi...
| A Consolating Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Sherry Wine half a pint; strong Cinnamon Water 4 ounces; Rose Water, white Sugar Candy, each 2 ounces; Juice of Kermes strain'd 1 ounce; Species called Laetificans Galeni 2 drams; Leaves of Gold ...
| A Corollate Mixture. | 1710 |
Take red Coral Finely levigated 2 drams; Salt of Wormwood 4 scruples; Juice of Lemons fresh drawn 4 ounces; strong Cinnamon Water 2 ounces mix in an open glass, and let them stand uncork'd, least thei...
| A Diuretic Mixture. | 1710 |
Take white Wine 12 ounces; Oil of Juniper 24 drops; Oil of Anise 12 drops; white Sugar 1 ounce and half, mix.
| A Golden Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Juice of Kermes strain'd half an ounce; Syrup of Gilly flowers and Rasberries, each 2 ounces; Oil of Nutmeg 2 drops; Oil of Cloves 1 drop; Leaves of Gold 5, mix.
| A Juniper Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Oil of Juniper 1 dram; Subigate it perfectly with the Yolk of 1 Egg, mix in white Syrup 2 ounces, and strain.
| A Mixture for Glysters. | 1710 |
Take Domestic Syrup 2 ounces; Lenitive Electuary 1 ounce; Species of Hiera 1 dram, mix.
| A Mixture for the Throat. | 1710 |
Take Seeds of Flea wort and Quinces, each 2 drams; Decoct in Water half a pint to 4 ounces; to the strained Mucilage add one white of Egg well beaten, Damask Rose Water 2 ounces; Syrup of Raspberries ...
| A Mixture with Bole. | 1710 |
Take Barly Cinnamon Water 4 ounces; Mint Water, Syrup of Myrtle (or of dried Roses) each 1 ounce; finely powder'd Bole 2 scruples; Diascordium 2 drams Oil of Cloves 1 drop; Liquid Laudanum 30 drops, m...
| A Mixture with Sperma Ceti. | 1710 |
Take Canary Wine, Linseed Oil, each 3 ounces; Oil of Turpentine 10 drops; Sperma Ceti, Crabs Eyes, each half a dram; white Sugar 3 drams; mix artificially, and it give warm for one Dose.
| A Musk Mixture. | 1710 |
Take depurated Juice of Mint 4 ounces; compound Wormwood and strong Cinnamon Waters, each 1 ounce; powder'd Castor 1 dram; Musk 4 grains; white Sugar candy 3 drams, mix.
| A Oleose Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Oil of sweet Almonds (or rather Oil of Walnuts) 2 ounces; Syrup of Marsh Mallows 4 ounces; water of Pellitory of the Wall 6 ounces, Salt Prunel 1 dram, mix.
| A Pacific Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Liquid Laudanum tartarised 2 drams; Oil of Nutmeg and Cinnamon each 4 drops, mix.
| A Paralytic Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Spirit of Scurvy grass 2 drams; compound Spirit of Lavender, Tincture of Castor, each half a dram; Elixir Proprietatis tartaris'd 1 dram; Oil of Nutmeg 4 drops; Oil of Cinnamon and Cloves, each 2...
| A Pectoral Mixture. | 1710 |
Take of the Pectoral Decoction 30 ounces; Tincture of Saffron (made in Treacle Water) 6 drams; Tincture of Benjamin 2 drams; Syrup of Ground Ivy 1 ounce and half; Oil of Anise 1 drop, mix.
| A Peruvian Mixture. | 1710 |
Take very finely powder'd Peruvian Peel 1 ounce; Alexiterial Milk Water 1 pint; Mint, Cinnamon, Epidemial Waters, and Syurp of Gilly flowers, each 4 ounces; Oil of Nutmeg 4 drops, mix.
| A Pleuritic Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Waters of Hyssop 2 ounces; Fennel 1 ounces; Epidemial and Treacle Water, each half an ounce; Crabs Eyes, Bezoar Mineral, each 1 scruple; Spirit of Salt Armoniac 15 drops; London Laudanum 2 grains...
| A Saline Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Penny royal water 6 ounces; Salt of Tartar 2 drams, mix.
| A Saponaceous Mixture. | 1710 |
Take fine Venice Soap scraped thin 1 dram; mix it with Oil of Aniseed 3 drops; Add Syrup of Maiden Hair 3 ounces; Syrup of Horehound 1 ounce; Penny royal water 2 ounces, mix all according to Art and s...
| A Scorbutic Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Horse Radish water compound half an ounce; Spirit of Scurvy grass 3 drams; Elixir Proprietatis tartaris'd 2 drams; Spirit of Salt Armoniac 1 dram; Oil of Juniper 40 drops, mix.
| A Stomach Mixture. | 1710 |
Take strong Cinnamon water 1 ounces; Oil of Vitriol 1 dram; Oil of Cloves 24 drops; mix.
| A Sulphurate Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Syrup of Juice of Hounds tongue 4 ounces; Balsam of Sulphur Anisated 80 drops, mix.
| A Tartareous Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Spirituous Cinnamon Water 6 ounces; Oil of Tartar by Deliquium 3 drams; Spirit of Salt Armoniac 90 drops, mix.
| An Acovistic Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Tincture of Castor 2 drams; Oil of Sage, Rosemary, Cloves, Marjoram, each 2 drops, mix.
| An Aromatic Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Tincture of Salt Tartar 6 drams; Oil of Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmeg, each 6 drops; Oil of Pepper, Wormwood, Mint, each 4 drops, mix.
| An Asthmatic Mixture. | 1710 |
Take erratic Poppy Water 9 ounces; Oxymel of Squills 3 ounces, mix.
| An Ecphractic Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Pine tops cut small 6 handfulls; boil in Water 2 quarts to 1; strain, wringing it hard through a Cloth; add to the Liquor depurated Juice of Scurvy-grass 1 pint; of Brooklime, Water- cresses and ...
| An Epileptic Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Lime tree flower and Fennel Waters, each 2 ounces; Syrup of Stechas and of Meconium, each 1 ounce; Spirit of Salt Armoniac 1 scruple, mix, for 2 Doses.
| An Erysipelas Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Spirit of Wine half a pint; Venice Treacle 2 ounces; long Pepper, Cloves, each 2 drams, mix.
| An Hysteric Aquose Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Waters of Mugwort, black Cherries, each 12 ounces; of Rue, Penny royal, Bryony compound, each 8 ounces, mix.
| An Hysteric Spirituose Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Tincture of Asa Foetida (extracted with Spirit of Wine) Tincture of Galbanum, of Castor, and Spirit of Salt Armoniac (or Hartshorn) each 1 dram; Oil of Amber 32 drops, Mix.
| Astringent Mixture. | 1785 |
Take simple cinnamon-water and common water, of each three ounces; spirituous cinnamon- water, an ounce and a half; Japonic confection, half an ounce. Mix them.
| Diuretic Mixture. | 1785 |
Take of mint-water, five ounces; vinegar of squills, six drachms; sweet spirit of nitre, half an ounce; syrup of ginger, an ounce and a half. Mix them.
| Laxative absorbent Mixture. | 1785 |
Rub one drachm of magnesia alba in a mortar with ten or twelve grains of the best Turkey rhubarb, and add to them three ounces of common water, simple cinnamon water, and syrup of sugar, of each one o...
| Saline Mixture. | 1785 |
Dissolve a drachm of the salt of tartar in four ounces of boiling water; and when cold, drop into it spirit of vitriol till the effervescence ceases; then add, of peppermint-water, two ounces; simple ...
| Squill Mixture. | 1785 |
Take of simple cinnamon-water, five ounces; vinegar of squills, one ounce; syrup of marshmallows, an ounce and a half. Mix them.
| The Thebane Mixture. | 1710 |
Take Thebane Juice (or, for want of it, London Laudanum) 12 grains; dissolve it in black Cherry Water 12 ounces; and rectify'd Spirit of Wine half an ounce; add white Sugar half an ounce; strain and d...
Nodule
| An Hysteric Nodule. | 1710 |
Take Asa Foetida half a dram; Castor, Camphire, each 1 scruple; Oil of Amber half a scruple; mix, and tie up in a rag or piece of Silk.
Oil
| A Cephalic Oil. | 1710 |
Take Balsam of Peru 1 dram; Oil of Rosemary, Sage, Marjoram, Nutmegs, each 4 drops; Camphire half a dram, mix.
| A Paralytic Oil. | 1710 |
Take Oil of Amber, Sassaphras, each 1 dram; Oil of Rosemary, Pepper, each 1 scruple, mix.
| An Acovistic Oil. | 1710 |
Take Oil of bitter Almonds 1 dram; Oil of Nutmeg, Cummin, Marjoram, Petre, each 4 drops, Civet 2 grains, mix.
| Oil of Rhubarb. | 1710 |
Take Oil of sweet Almonds and Rhubarb powder'd, each as much as you please; put it into a glased Pot, lain upon lain, give it a warm Digestion for a Nights space, and then press out a golden colour'd ...
Ointment, Liniment and Cerate
| Camphorated Oil. | 1785 |
Rub an ounce of camphor, with two ounces of Florence oil, in a mortar, till the camphor be entirely dissolved.
| Emollient Ointment. | 1785 |
Take of palm oil, two pounds; olive oil, a pint and a half; yellow wax, half a pound; Venice turpentine, a quarter of a pound. Melt the wax in the oils over a gentle fire; then mix in the turpentine, ...
| Eye Ointments. | 1785 |
Take of hogs' lard prepared, four ounces; white wax, two drachms; tutty prepared, one ounce; melt the wax with the lard over a gentle fire, and then sprinkle in the tutty, continually stirring them ti...
| Issue Ointment. | 1785 |
Mix half an ounce of Spanish flies, finely powered, in six ounces of yellow basilicum ointment.
| Liniment for Burns. | 1785 |
Take equal parts of Florence oil, or of fresh drawn linseed oil, and lime-water; shake them well together in a wide mouthed bottle, so as to form a liniment.
| Liniment for the Piles. | 1785 |
Take of emollient ointment, two ounces; liquid laudanum, half an ounce. Mix these ingredients with the yolk of an egg, and work them well together.
| Mercurial Ointment. | 1785 |
Take of quicksilver, two ounces; hogs' lard, three ounces; mutton suet, one ounce. Rub the quicksilver with an ounce of the hogs's lard in a warm mortar, till the globules be perfectly extinguished; t...
| Ointment of Calamine. | 1785 |
Take of olive oil, a pint and a half; white wax, and calamine stone, levigated, of each half a pound. Let the calamine stone, reduced into a fine powder, be rubbed with some part of the oil, and after...
| Ointment of Lead. | 1785 |
Take of olive oil, half a pint; white wax, two ounces; sugar of lead, three drachms. Let the sugar of lead, reduced into a fine powder, be rubbed up with some part of the oil, and afterwards added to ...
| Ointment of Sulphur. | 1785 |
Take of hogs' lard prepared, four ounces; flowers of sulphur, an ounce and a half; crude sal ammoniac, two drachms; essence of lemon, ten or twelve drops. Make them into an ointment.
| Volatile Liniment. | 1785 |
Take of florence oil, an ounce; spirit of hartshorn, half an ounce. Shake them together.
| White Liniment. | 1785 |
This is made in the same manner as the white ointment, two thirds of the wax being left out.
| White Ointment. | 1785 |
Take of olive oil, one pint; white wax and sperma ceti, of each three ounces. Melt them with a gentle heat, and keep them constantly and briskly stirring together, till quite cold.
| Yellow Basilicum Ointment. | 1785 |
Take of yellow wax, white resin, and frankincense, each a quarter of a pound; melt them together over a gentle fire; then add, of hogs' lard prepared, one pound. Strain the ointment while warm.
Oxymel
| A Purging Pectoral Oxymel. | 1710 |
Take Raisins of the Sun stoned, and cut small, Orris Root, each 1 ounce; Elecampane, Calamus Aromaticus, each half an ounce; Senna 2 ounces; Agaric (tied up in a Rag) half an ounce; white Horehound, S...
| An Asthmatic Oxymel. | 1710 |
Take Zedoary 1 ounce; boil in Water 1 quart to 1 pint and half; in the strained Liquor, mix Gum Ammoniacum (first dissolv'd in Vinegar 4 ounces) 1 ounce; strain and add Honey 4 ounces; boil, scum and ...
| An Oxymel of Tobacco. | 1710 |
Take Tobacco leaves (powdered and tied up in a Rag) 1 ounce and half; Agaric (likewise tied up) Liquorice, each 1 ounce; Senna, Raisins of the Sun, each 2 ounces; Vinegar 2 quarts, boil to 2 pints and...
Paste
| A Paste for Aphthae. | 1710 |
Take new Butter, just out of the Churn, unsalted (and washed in Rose water) 1 ounce and half; Liquorice powder 1 dram and half; white SUgar candy powdered, and passed through a Searce, as much as serv...
| Gallic Paste. | 1710 |
Take Bole 1 ounce; Burnt Alum, burnt Crust of Bread, powdered Tiles, Porcelane Ware, each 2 drams; clarified Honey as much as is sufficient to give the Consistence of Paste, beat all up together.
Pellet
| Pellets for the Teeth. | 1710 |
Take Asa foetida, 8 grains; Camphire, Dragons Blood, each 1 grain; Oil of Pepper 2 drops, mix.
Pill
| 1. Diuretic Pills. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Bees 2 dram; Salt Prunel 1 dram; Salt of Amber, Mustard seed, each half a dram; Oil of Aniseed 12 drops; Venice Turpentine sufficient to make all up into Pills for 12 Doses.
| 1. Purging Chalybeate Pills. | 1710 |
Take Ruffus's Pill 1 scruple; Vitriol of Mars 5 grains; make it up into 5 Pills with Balsm of Peru.
| 1. Splenetic Pills. | 1710 |
Take Spikenard 1 dram; Asa Foetida, Ens Veneris each half a dram; Oil of Amber 8 drops, with Balsam of Peru, reduce them into a Mass; and form 3 Pills out of every scruple.
| 2. Diuretic Pills. | 1710 |
Take Egg shells calcin'd half a dram; Camphire 1 scruple; Cantharides half a scruple; Venice Turpentine sufficient to form out of it 9 Pills.
| 2. Purging Chalybeate Pills, by Dr. A. | 1710 |
Take Gum Ammoniac (strain'd with Rhenish Wine) 2 ounces; Vitriol of Mars (calcined to a little redness) half an ounce; Scammony Sulphurated 10 drams; Oil of Mint 12 drops; Syrup of Blackthorn as much ...
| 2. Splenetic Pills. | 1710 |
Take Ens Veneris 4 scruples; Saffron, long Pepper, Virginia Snake root, Spikenard, each 1 scruple; Galbanum 4 scruples, with Tincture of Myrrh, make 24 Pills.
| Alexiterial Pills. | 1710 |
Take powdered Virginia Snake Root 1 dram and half; Camphire, Salt of Amber, each half a dram; thin Diascordium as much as needful; beat it up into a Mass, and make every scruple into 4 Pills.
| Amber Pills. | 1710 |
Take Ambergrise 2 grains; Musk, Salt of Hartshorn, each 1 grain; Opium 3 grains; Balsam of Peru as much as is sufficient; bring it into three Pills for three Doses; but be sure to beat it well, that t...
| Antemetic Pills. | 1710 |
Take powdered Mint 2 drams; Wormwood 2 scruples; Balaustines 1 scruple, Oil of Cinnamon 2 drops; Diascordium (or Venice Treacle) 1 dram; reduce into a Pilulary Mass with Syrup of Quinces.
| Arthritic Pills. | 1710 |
Take powdered Ground Pine 6 drams Ens; Veneris 2 drams, make it up into Pills with Venice Turpentine for 16 Doses.
| Astringent Pills. | 1710 |
Take true fine Bole, Dragons Blood in Tears, red Coral, Amber, Mastick, Astringent Crocus of Mars, each 1 dram; Oil of Cinnamon, Nutmeg, each 6 drops; make all into an Alcohol, and then with Turpentin...
| Balsamic Pills. | 1710 |
Take Millepedes prepared, 3 drams; Gum Ammoniac strained (with Spirit of Wine) 1 dram and half; Flowers of Benjamin 1 dram; Saffron, Balsam of Peru, each 15 grains; Balsam of Sulphur, enough to embody...
| Bennet Pills. | 1710 |
Take of the very finest Aloes half an ounce; Senna 2 drams; Asa Foetida, Galbanum, Myrrh, each 1 dram; Vitriol of Mars 6 drams; Saffron, Mace, each half a dram; Oil of Amber 40 drops; Syrup of Mugwort...
| Black Pills. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Elecampane, Orris, Aniseed, Sugar candy, each 1 dram; Liquid pitch 2 drams; or as much as is sufficient, make it into 36 Pills.
| Cachectic Pills. | 1710 |
Take fine pick'd Ammoniacum in drops, pure Aloes, each 6 drams; Steel prepared with Sulphur 5 drams; Oil of Cloves and Anise, each 10 drops; Spirit of Wine (or Elixir Proporietatis tartaris'd) suffici...
| Camphorate Pills. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Liquorice, Sugar, Camphir, each 2 scruples; with Venice Turpentine, make it up into Pills.
| Carminative Pills. | 1710 |
Take Gum Ammoniacum strain'd 2 scruple; Myrrh, Amber, Mastick, each 1 scruple; Olibanum, Saffron, Castor, each half a scruple; Salts of Mars (calcin'd to whiteness) half a dram; Oil of Nutmeg 8 drops;...
| Catarrh Pills. | 1710 |
Take Pil. Ruffi 1 scruple; Storax Pills 6 grains; Oil of Aniseed 1 drop; make it up into 5 Pills.
| Catholic Pills. | 1710 |
Take Pill Cochioe the greater 1 dram; Rudius's Extract 2 scruples; Rosin of Jalap 1 scruple; Oil of Aniseed 2 drops; with Balsam of Peru, make all up into 20 Pills for 4 Doses.
| Cephalic Pills. | 1710 |
Take Pill Foetid 15 grains; Rosin of Jalap, Castor, Salt of Amber, each 5 grains; Oil of Amber 2 drops; Spirit of Lavender compound as much as sufficient to make all up into 5 Pills.
| Chalybeate Pills. | 1710 |
Take Cloves half an ounce; Mace, Cinnamon, each 45 grains; Virginia Snkae root, Steel prepar'd with Sulphur, each 2 dram s; Vitriol of Mars 1 dram; Oil of Nutmeg 24 drops; reduce all to a subtile Powd...
| Cinnaber Pills. | 1710 |
Take Native Cinnaber reduced into an Alcohol Humane Cranium, each 2 drams; Castor, Salt of Amber, each 1 dram; make all into an exquisite fine Powder, to which add Oil of Marjoram 12 drops; Balsam of ...
| Cochineal Pills. | 1710 |
Take Cochineal 2 drams; Saffron 1 dram; with Honey bring it to a Mass for Pills.
| Colic Pills. | 1710 |
Take Pills e duobus half a dram, Calomet half a scruple; Oil of Amber 2 drops; London Laudanum 2 grains; Diacodium as much as useful to make 5 Pills.
| Composing Pill. | 1785 |
Take of purified opium, ten grains; Castile soap, half a drachm. Beat them together, and form the whole into twenty pills.
| Crato's Pills. | 1710 |
Take Cubebs, Nutmeg, Cloves, Mastick, Calamint, each 1 dram; Ambergrise half a dram; Musk 6 grains; with Juice of Marjoram, make Pills.
| Diaphoretic Pills. | 1710 |
Take Virginia Snake root 1 dram and half; Saffron, Camphire, Salt of Amber, each half a scruple; make all into a subtle Powder, of which with the thin part of Diascordium, make up 30 Pills.
| Dysenteric Pills. | 1710 |
Take true Bole powder'd 2 drams; Oil of Paper 4 drops; Galbanum strain'd, as much as will make it into a pilular Mass. I suppose there will be need of some Syrup to bring it to a Body.
| Ecphractic Pills. | 1710 |
Take Stomach Pills with Gum, Aloephangine Pills; powder'd Rhubarb, Gum of Guiacum, Salt of Steel, each 4 scruples; Salt of Wormwood, extract of Gentian, each 2 scrnples; Elixir of Propriety as much as...
| Emmenagogue Pills. | 1710 |
Take Venetian Borace, Myrrh, each 45 grains; Birthwort Root, Saffron, each 15 grains; Oil of Pennyroyal, Savine, Cloves, each 2 drops; with Syrup of the 5 opening Roots make 18 Pills for 6 Doses.
| Expectorating Pills. | 1710 |
Take Gum Ammoniac strained (or rather the fine Grains of it picked out) Millepedes, each 1 dram and half; Castor, Flower of Benjamin, Salt of Amber, each half a dram Camphire, Saffron, each 15 grains,...
| Febrifuge Pills. | 1710 |
Take powdered Cammomile flowers 2 drams and half; Diaphoretic Antimony 1 dram; Salt of Wormwood half a dram, with mucilage of Gum Tragacanth, make up Pills for 12 Doses.
| Foetid Pill. | 1785 |
Take of asafoetida, half an ounce; simple syrup, as much as is necessary to form it into pills.
| Garlic Pills. | 1710 |
Take Juice of Garlic half an ounce; Gum Ammoniac 1 dram and half; Millepedes preapred 1 dram; Saffron 1 scruple; Flowers of Bemjamin half a scruple; Oil of Aniseed 4 drops; Elecampane Powder, as much ...
| Gentian Pills. | 1710 |
Take powdered Gentian 2 drams; Salt of Wormwood 2 scruple; Extract of Gentian 1 dram; Syrup of dried Roses as much as needs, mix.
| Gilead Pills. | 1710 |
Take white Sugar candy powdered and searced 2 drams; the cold Species of Gum Tragacanth 1 dram; Balsam of Tolu 2 scruples; Flower of Benjamin 1 scruple; bring these to a fine powder, and with the Balm...
| Guaiacum Pills. | 1710 |
Take Gum of Guaiacum, Aloes, each 1 dram and half; Balsam of Peru enough to make them up, mix.
| Heamoptoic Pills. | 1710 |
Take powdered Harts Tongue leaves, as much as you please, and make it up into Pills, with Balm of Gilead.
| Hemlock Pill. | 1785 |
Take any quantity of the extract of hemlock, and adding to it about a fifth part its weight of the powder of the dried leaves, form it into pills.
| Hydragogue Pills. | 1710 |
Take Gamboge powdered 12 grains; Oil of Juniper 2 drops; Mithridate as much as suffices, and make them into Pills for one Dose.
| Hysteric Pills. | 1710 |
Take Galbbanum strained, Asa Foetida, Myrrh, each 1 dram; Castor, Camphire, Salt of Amber, each half a scruple; Oil of Amber 4 drops; Balsam of Peru as much as needs, and so beat them up. Note, if the...
| Icteric Pills. | 1710 |
Take Cream of Tartar, Cochineal, each half a dram; Venetian Soap 2 drams; beat these up into Pills. Or instead of Cochineal may be used Barbadoes Indigo.
| Japanic Pills. | 1710 |
Take Japanic Earth powdered 2 drams; Oil of Cinnamon 4 drops; Syrup of dried Roses sufficient to make a Mass of Pills.
| Mercurial Pill. | 1785 |
Take of purified quicksilver and honey, each half an ounce. Rub them together in a mortar, till the globules of mercury are perfectly extinguished; then add, of Castile soap, two drachms, powdered liq...
| Mercurial sublimate Pill. | 1785 |
Dissolve fifteen grains of the corrosive sublimate of mercury in two drachms of the saturated solution of crude sal ammoniac, and make it into a paste, in a glass mortar, with a sufficient quantity of...
| Myrrh Pills. | 1710 |
Take Myrrh 1 dram; Saffron 1 scruple; Balsam of Peru half a scruple; Yolk of Egg as much sufficient to bring all into a Mass.
| Nephritic Pills. | 1710 |
Take Millepedes, Crude Salt Armoniac, Venetian Soap, each 2 drams; Gum of Ivy 1 dram and half; Saffron half a dram; Oil of Juniper 16 drops; make all up into Pills with Venice Turpentine.
| Olibanum Pills. | 1710 |
Take Olibanum powdered and searced, 4 scruples; Salt of Harts born 1 scruple, with Yolk of Egg, make a Mass.
| Pectoral Pills. | 1710 |
Take powdered Elecampane, Orris, Liquorice, each 1 scruple; Saffron, Flower of Benjamin, each half a scruple; white Sugar candy 2 scruples; make it up into a Mass with Balsam of Sulphur Anisated.
| Pills for Fainting. | 1710 |
Take Musk 6 grains; Cinnamon, Nutmeg, each 1 scruple; Cloves, Saffron, each half a scruple; make it up for 3 Doses of Pills, with Confection of Alkermes.
| Pills for the Jaundice. | 1785 |
Take of Castile soap, succotorine aloes, and rhubarb, of each one drachm. Make them into pills with a sufficient quantity of syrup or mucilage.
| Pills of Crude Mercury. | 1710 |
Take crude Mercury, cleansed well 6 drams; Turbith 2 drams and half; Aloes, rhubarb, Coloquintida, Diagrydium, Agaric, each 2 drams; Hermodactyls, Myrrh, Mithridate, each 1 dram and half; Musk Ambergi...
| Pills of Mercury Dulcis. | 1710 |
Take powdered Mercury Dulcis half a scruple; Radius's Extract 15 grains; Resin of Jalap 5 grains; Oil of Cloves 1 drop; Syrup of Roses enough to make 5 Pills.
| Pleuritic Pills. | 1710 |
Take Goat's Blood prepared 1 dram and half; Volatile Salt of Salt Armoniac (or of Hart's born) Salt of Amber, Camphire, each half a scruple, with Venice Turpentine make a Mass.
| Plummer's Pill. | 1785 |
Take of calomel, or sweet mercury, and precipitated sulphur of antimony, each three drachms; extract of liquorice, two drachms. Rub the sulphur and mercury well together; afterwards add the extract, a...
| Polychrest Pills. | 1710 |
Take lucid Aloes, Scammony prepared, each 3 drams; Troches of Alhandal 2 drams; Mastick, Saffron, each 45 grains.
| Potercus's Pills. | 1710 |
Take Flower of Sulphur, Liquorice, white Sugar candy, each I dram; Balsam of Sulphur enough to reduce it into a Mass.
| Purging Pills. | 1785 |
Take of succotorine aloes, and Castile soap, each two drachms; of simple syrup, a sufficient quantity to make them into pills.
| Saffron Pills. | 1710 |
Take Extract of Saffron 16 grains; Flower of Benjamin 24 grains; Spanish Juice of Liquorice 2 scruples and half; Oil of Aniseed 2 drops, make with Elixir of Propriety 12 Pills.
| Saline Pills. | 1710 |
Take Salt of Wormwood 2 scruples; Oil of Anniseed, Cloves, and Amber, each 1 drop, with Venice Tupentine make 8 Pills for 4 Doses.
| Salt Gem Pills. | 1710 |
Take powdered Rue, long Pepper, Salt Gem, Camphire, each half a dram; Oil of Cummin 4 drops, Balsam of Peru 1 dram; Diacodium sufficient to make it into Pills.
| Salt of Steel Pills the less. | 1710 |
Take powdered Salt of Steel 2 drams, Galbanum strained, as much as needful, and a little Syrup of the 5 Roots, all which beat up into Pills for 24 Doses.
| Salt of Steel Pills, the greater. | 1710 |
Take Salt of Steel, Gum Ammoniac, each half a dram; Zedoary, Extract of Gentian, each 2 drams, with Syrup of the 5 Roots; make a Mass, and out of it 60 Pills.
| Scammony Pills. | 1710 |
Take powdered Falap root, Scammony prepared, Calomel, each half a scruple, Oil of Caraway 1 drop; Honey enough to make 5 Pills. They are almost of the same Virtues with Pills of Mercury Dulcis.
| Smegmatic Pills. | 1710 |
Take Venetian Soap 2 drams; Oil of Anniseed 8 drops; beat them up together, and make 24 Pills.
| Solenander's Pills. | 1710 |
Take Musk 8 grains; Dragon's Blood, white Sugar, each I scruple; make all up with Balm of Gilead into Pills, for 4 Doses.
| Squill Pills. | 1785 |
Take powder of dried squills, a drachm and a half; gum ammoniac, and cardamom seeds, in powder, of each three drachms; simple syrup, a sufficient quantity.
| Stomachic Pills Purging. | 1710 |
Take Russus's Pill 1 scruple; Resin of Falap, Salt of Wormwood, each 5 grains; Oil of Wormwood, Mint, each 1 drop, with Elixir of Propriety Tartarifed, make 5 Pills.
| Stomachic Pills with Ammoniac. | 1710 |
Take Gum Ammoniac strained, Aloes, each 1 dram; Myrrh, Senna, Saffron, each half a dram; Oxymel of Squills, as much as will bring it into a convenient Consistence.
| Stomachic Pills. | 1710 |
Take powdered Cinnamon, Mace, Nutmeg, each 1 scruple; Cloves, long Pepper, Balaustines, each half a scruple; extract of Gentian 1 dram and half, Elixir of Propriety, as much as will reduce them into a...
| Stomachic Pills. | 1785 |
Take extract of gentian, two drachms; powdered rhubarb and vitriolated tartar, of each one drachm; oil of mint, thirty drops; simple syrup, a sufficient quantity.
| Strengthening Pill. | 1785 |
Take soft extract of the bark, and salt of steel, each half an ounce. Make into pills.
| Styptic Pills. | 1710 |
Take Astringent Saffron of Mars 2 scruples; Sugar of Lead, Camphire, each half a scruple; Oil of Amber 1 drop, make up into Pills with Venice Turpentine.
| Sulphur Pills. | 1710 |
Take Powder of Liquorice 2 drams; Mastic 1 dram; make up Pills with Balsam of Sulphur Anisated.
| Sylbius's Pills. | 1710 |
Take Gum Ammoniac strained 2 scruples; Vitriol of Mars (gently calcined to Whiteness) 1 scruple; Myrrh, Castor, each 15 grains; Saffron half a scruple; Troches of Alhandal 1 dram; Resin of Falap, Scam...
| Tar Pills. | 1710 |
Take hard shining Wood Soot 1 dram and half; Salt of Harts horn half a dram; Tar as much as you want to bring it into a fit Mass.
| The Womens Pills. | 1710 |
Take powdered Savine, Dittany of Creet, each 1 dram; Myrrh, Galbanum, Gum Ammoniac, Castor, each 2 drams; make all into a Mass with Syrup of Mugwort.
| Turpentine Pills. | 1710 |
Take Venice Turpentine (cocted in Plantain water to a due Consistence) Half an ounce; Amber, Dragons Blood, Bole, each half a dram, make Pills.
| Yellow Pills. | 1710 |
Take Resin of Jalap 1 dram; Oil of Juniper 6 drops; Saffron 8 grains; Myrrh 12 grains, with Yolk of Egg make up 16 Pills for 4 Doses.
Plaister
| 1. Plaister against Abortion. | 1710 |
Take Plaister for Ruptures 1 ounce; Cerate of Sanders, Countesses Unguent, each 3 drams; Oil of Myrtle 3 drams and half; Wax half an ounce; to these (when melted) add the following Powder, Viz. Dragon...
| 1. Splenetic Plaister. | 1710 |
Take Plaister of Cummin, Melilot compound, Gum Tacamahacca, each 2 drams, Plaister of Hemloc, with Ammoniac, Balsam of Peru, each 1 dram, mix.
| 1. Stomach Plaister compound. | 1710 |
Take Magistral Stomach Plaister half an ounce; Tacamahac colated 2 drams; melt, and them add powdered Balsam of Tolu I dram; Dragon's Blood, Balsam of Peru, each a dram; Oil of Nutmeg, Cloves, each 2 ...
| 2. Plaister against Abortion. | 1710 |
Take Plaister for Ruptures (or Coesar's) Diapalma, each I ounce; Cyprus Turpentine half an ounce; make it into two Plaisters; one for the Back, the other for the Belly.
| 2. Splenetic Plaister. | 1710 |
Take Plaister of Cummin 3 drams, Oxycroceum, Tacamahacca strained, each 1 dram and half; Oil of Sassafras 3 drops, mix.
| 2. Stomach Plaister compound. | 1710 |
Take Tacamahac colated, 7 drams; powdered Mint, Balaustines, each half a dram; Oil of Cloves, Nutmeg, Anise, Amber, eash 2 drops, mix.
| A Balsamic Plaister. | 1710 |
Take Diapalma 2 ounces; Cyprus Turpentine, yellow Wax, each half an ounce; melt these together, and add Oil of Numeg 16 drops; powdered Balsam of Tolu 1 ounce, mix.
| A Cephalic Plaister. | 1710 |
Take Plaister of Betony half an ounce; Caranna, Tacamahacca, each 3 drams; powdered Balsam of Tolu 2 scruples; Balsam of Peru ( or Capive) 1 scruple, mix.
| A Dorsale Plaister. | 1710 |
Take Rupture Plaister, Diapalma, each as much as you please, and melt them together.
| A Febrisic Plaister. | 1710 |
Prick a piece of white Leather all over with the sharp point of a Knife; strew upon it powdered Frankincense, melt it with an hot Spatula, and then over that spread Turpentine.
| A Frankincense Plaister. | 1710 |
Take Frankincense 2 drams; Tacamabacca 1 dram; Saffron powdered half a scruple; Venice Turpentine sufficient, mix.
| A Lateral Plaister. | 1710 |
Take Cummin Plaister 1 ounce; Camphire 1 scruple; Oil of Aniseed 16 drops, mix.
| A Nephritic Plaister. | 1710 |
Take powdered Opium 2 drams; soft-Soap 1 ounces; Oil of Juniper half a dram, mix, and Lay it to the Region of the Reins.
| A Pectoral Plaister. | 1710 |
Take Tacamahacca strained half an ounce; Yellow Wax 2 drams; melt together, and add powdered Benjamin, Storax Calamite, each I dram; Saffron half a scruple; Oil of Aniseed 8 drops; Oil of Nutmeg, Clov...
| A Plaister for the Feet. | 1710 |
Take Cephalic Plaister 3 drams; hard Pitch 2 drams; powdered Euphorbium 2 scruples; Camphire and Oil Amber, each 1 scruple mix.
| A Plaister for the Loins. | 1710 |
Take Vigo's Plaister of red Lead 2 ounces; Diapalma (prepared with Oil of Roses instead of Hog's Lard) 1 ounce and half; Caranna (Dissoved in Vinegar of Roses, and strained) half an ounce; Bole, seate...
| A Plaister for the Temples. | 1710 |
Take Caranna 1 dram; Spread it upon a fitting piece of Leather, and put in the middle of it Opium 2 grains; Oil of Amber 4 drops.
| A Plaister with hiera. | 1710 |
Take Aloes, Myrrh, each 1 dram; Species of Hiera, Venice Treacle, each half a dram; Chymical Oil of Wormwood 4 drops; Ox Gall 1 scruple; Honey as much as sufficient.
| A Plaister with Marjoram. | 1710 |
Take white Pitch half an ounce; powdered Majoram half a Dram; Euphorbium 5 grains, mix.
| A Plaister with Pellitory. | 1710 |
Take Galbanum colated, Sagapenum, Ammoniacum (dissolved in White Wine, and strained), each Iounce, powdered Pellitory of Spain, Mustardseed, each half an ounce; Wax 1 ounce and half, Venice Turpentine...
| A Pleuritic Plaister. | 1710 |
Take Stictic of Paracelsus, Shop Plaister, each 1 ounce; Poplar Ointment 1 ounce and half, melt them over a gentle Fire, continually stirring with a Spatula; then take off, and when it begins to grow ...
| A Quinsy Plaister. | 1710 |
Take Diachylon simple 3 drams; Chymical Oil Of Wormwood 18 drops, mix.
| A Spinale Plaister. | 1710 |
Take Diapalma half an ounce; Oxycroceum 2 drams; Oil of Amber 12 drops, mix.
| A Volatile Plaister. | 1710 |
Take fine Venice Turpentine 1 ounce; work it with a Pestle in a Mortar, pouring in by little and little, Spirit of Salt Armoniac, 'till it hath taken up its own Weight of it; labour it very well, till...
| An Anodyne Plaister. | 1710 |
Take Red Lead Plaister 4 ounces; Oil of Lilies half an ounce; Venice Turpentine 2 drams; Opium, Camphire, Sugar of Lead, each 2 scruples, mix.
| An Apoplectic Plaister. | 1710 |
Take Galbanum, Opopanax, Pellitory of Spain, Mustard seed, long, Castor, each 1 dram and half; Venice Turpentine 3 drams or as much as suffuceth; adding Oil of Amber 1 scruple, mix.
| An Arthritic Plaister. | 1710 |
Take Gum Elemi, Colophonia, Burgundy Pitch, each 2 ounces; powdered Red Lead, Mastic, Olibanum, Bole, each 2 drams; Oil of Petre, Spike, Anise, each 1 dram and half, mix.
| An Epispastic Plaister. | 1710 |
Take white Pitch 8 ounces; Venice Turpentine, Cantharides finely powdered and searced, each 2 ounces and half, mix.
| An hydropic Plaister. | 1710 |
Take the Soap Plaister 2 ounces; Oil Of Aniseed, Potroleum, each half a dram, mix.
| An Icteric Plaister. | 1710 |
Take powered Saffron 2 drams; make a Plaister of it with Honey, which spread upon a piece of Leather, and lay it so as to cover the Region of the Liver and Navel.
| An Ischiatic Plaister. | 1710 |
Take white Pitch 2 ounces; Galbanum 1 ounce; Sulphur vive 2 drams; Amber 1 dram; Hermodactyls, Orris root, Cummin seed, Camomile flowers, each half a dram, make it up into a Mass with Petroleum.
| Mastic Plaister compound. | 1710 |
Take Mastic, Gum Juniper, Nutmeg, Cloves, each 1 scruple; Labdanum 6 drams, work it with an hot Pestle and Mortar, with a sufficient quantity of Oil of Mastic into a Plaister.
Plaster
| Adhesive Plaster. | 1785 |
Take of common plaster, half a pound; of Burgundy pitch, a quarter of a pound. Melt them together.
| Anodyne Plaster. | 1785 |
Melt an ounce of adhesive plaster, and, when it is cooling, mix with it a drachm of powdered opium, and the same quantity of camphor, previously rubbed up with a little oil.
| Blistering Plaster. | 1785 |
Take of Venice turpentine, six ounces; yellow wax, two ounces; Spanish flies in fine powder, three ounces; powdered mustard, one ounce. Melt the wax, and while it is warm, add to it the turpentine, ta...
| Common Plaster. | 1785 |
Take of common olive oil, six pints; litharge reduced to a fine powder, two pounds and a half. Boil the litharge and oil together over a gentle fire, continually stirring them, and keeping always abou...
| Gum Plaster. | 1785 |
Take of the common plaster, four pounds; gum ammoniac and galbanum, strained, of each half a pound. Melt them together, and add, of Venice turpentine, six ounces.
| Mercurial Plaster. | 1785 |
Take of common plaster, one pound; of gum ammoniac, strained, half a pound. Melt them together, and, when cooling, add eight ounces of quick-silver, previously extinguished by triture, with three ounc...
| Stomach Plaster. | 1785 |
Take of gum plaster, half a pound; camphorated oil, an ounce and a half; black pepper, or capsicum, where it can be had, one ounce. Melt the plaster, and mix with it the oil; then sprinkle in the pepp...
| Warm Plaster. | 1785 |
Take of gum plaster, one ounce; blistering plaster, two drachms. Melt them together over a gentle fire.
| Wax Plaster. | 1785 |
Take of yellow wax, one pound; white resin, half a pound; mutton suet, three quarters of a pound. Melt them together.
Posset
| A Posset with Wood Sorrel. | 1710 |
Take new Milk 1 quart; good fresh Small Beer 1 pint; White- wine half a pint, make 1 Posset, boiling in it Wood Sorrel 2 handfuls.
| Posset with Tamarinds. | 1710 |
Take Tamarinds 2 ounces, put to them (in a Marble Mortar) a little Milk, work it about with a Pestle, till the Tamarinds are dissolved, then pour it into boiling Milk 1 quart, and strain the whey from...
Potion
| A Lenitive Potion. | 1710 |
Take Cream of Tartar powdered 2 scruples first dissolve it over the Fire in Elder flower water 4 ounces; then dissolve Manna I ounce and half in the same; and strain, and Syrup of Roses solutive half ...
| A Purging hydropic Potion. | 1710 |
Take powdered Jalap root half a dram; Ginger 2 grains; Salt of Tartar 12 grains; Whitewine 3 ounces; Syrup of Roses solutive 1 ounce; Domestick Syrup half an ounce, mix.
| A Purging Nephritic Potion. | 1710 |
Take Mallows 1 handful; Senna 2 drams; Salt of Tartar 1 scruple; Boil in Water half a pint to 3 ounces; strain and dissolve in the Liquor, Manna 1 ounce and half; Oil of Sweet Almonds half an ounce; O...
| A Purging Rosinous Potion. | 1710 |
Take Rosin of Falap 12 grains; Oil of Anised 1 drop; having mixed these well with the Yolk of an Egg, add Syrup of Roses solutive 6 drams; White-wine 2 ounces, mix. It may be farther enforced with Gam...
| A Rhubarb Potion. | 1710 |
Take powdered Rhubarb 1 scruple (or half a dram); Mint or Cinnamon water, each 1 ounce and half; Oil of Nutmeg 2 drops; Syrup of dried Roses 6 drams, mix.
| An Ammoniac Potion. | 1710 |
Take pure Gum Ammoniac 2 scruples; dissolve it in Hyssop water 2 ounces and half; to the strained add Lenitive Electuary half an ounce; Syrup of Roses solution 1 ounce; Salt Prunel 2 scruples, mix.
| Powder against Abortion. | 1710 |
Take Kermes berries 1 dram; red Sanders, Tormentile root, each half a dram; Cloves, Pearl, red Coral, each 1 scruple; pearled Manus Christi 3 drams; Leaves of Gold 3, make all into a Powder.
| The Potion called Sancta. | 1710 |
Take powdered Gum of Guaiacum 1 drum and half; dissolve, and subigate it with the Yolk of an Egg; add Cinnamon water half an ounce; Fumitory water 1 ounce and half; Syrup of Roses solutive half an oun...
| The Vulnerary Potion of Arceus. | 1710 |
Take powdered Rhubarb half a dram; Madder, Mumy, each I scruple; sealed Earth half a scruple; Juice of Pomgranate, Waters of Scabious and Bugloss, each 1 ounce, mix.
| The Warwick Potion. | 1710 |
Take Scammony Sulphurated, Diaphoretic Antimony, Cream Of Tartar, each half a scruple; Succory water 3 ounces; Cinnamon water 2 drams; Syrup of Roses solutive 1 ounce, mix up a white Draught.
| The White Potion. | 1710 |
Take Venice Turpentine 3 drams (or half an ounce;) Oil of Nutmeg 2 drops; subigate these with the Yolk of an Egg; then add Syrup of Marsh Mallows 1 ounce; White-wine 3 ounces, and strain it. Syrup of ...
Powder
| 1. Colic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Sperma Zedoary 6 drams; Balsam of Peru 12 drops, mix for 6 Doses.
| 1. Styptic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Troches of Lemnian Earth, Bole, each 1 dram; Hematites Stone, Dragons blood, Mastick, Gum Arabic, each half a dram, make all into a Powder.
| 2. Colic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Sperma Ceti washed, white Sugar, each half a dram; Castor 3 grains; powder it for a single Dose.
| 2. Diuretic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Aniseed 1 dram and half; Salt of Amber half a dram; Oil of Nutmeg 3 drops, make a Powder for 3 Doses.
| 2. Styptic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Astringent Crocus of Mars, Seeds of white Poppy and Henbane, each 1 dram and 12 grains; Sugar of Lead 24 grains, make a Powder for 8 Doses.
| A Powder for Strumae. | 1710 |
Take Rocket seed and Poultry Bones dry'd in an Oven, as much as you will, beat both into Powder and mix.
| Alexipharmac Powder. | 1710 |
Take Goa-Stone, Contrayerva Stone, Gascoign Powder, Virginia Snake root, each 5 grains, make a Powder.
| Amber Powder. | 1710 |
Take Species Diambre, powder of Crabs claws compound, each I dram; Oil of Cinnamon 1 drop, mix for 6 Doses.
| An Astringent Powder. | 1710 |
Take Balaustines half a scruple; Cinnamon, Nutmeg, each 4 grains; Cochineal 2 grains; Sugar of Roses 1 scruple; make it into Powder for 1 Dose.
| Anthelminthic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Coralline prepared 1 dram; Mineral Ethiops (made without Fire) half a dram; Oil of Wormwood 1 drop, make it into Powder.
| Anthelminthic purging Powder. | 1710 |
Take Scammony prepared 6 grains; Rhubard 4 grains; Calomel half a scruple, make a powder for a Child 6 or 8 Years old.
| Arabic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Gum Arabic, white Sugar candy, each half an ounce; Oil of sweet Almonds 16 drops; make a powder for 8 Doses.
| Aromatic opening Powder. | 1785 |
Take of the best Turkey rhubarb, cinnamon, and fine sugar, each two drachms. Let the ingredients be pounded, and afterwards mixed well together.
| Aromatic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Cinnamon, Mace, Nutmeg, Cloves, Ginger, each 8 grains; Seeds of Anise, Caraway, Coriander, sweet Fennel, Bay berries, each 16 grains; Loaf Sugar 2 drams; make all into a powder for 8 Doses.
| Arthritic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Ground Pine, Southern wood, each half a scruple, Gum of Guaiacum, white Sugar, each 1 scruple; Oil of Sassaphras 1 drop; mix for a single Dose.
| Astringent Powder. | 1785 |
Take of alum and Japan earth, each two drachms. Pound them together, and divide the whole into ten or twelve doses.
| Balsamic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Balsam of Tolu half a scruple; Benjamin, Myrrh, each 5 grains; Balsam of Peru 1 drop; white Sugar candy 1 scruple, mix.
| Bezoartic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Powder of Crabs claws compound, Goa and Contrayerva Stone, Oriental Bezoar, each 5 grains; half a leaf of Gold, mix.
| Bitter Stomach Powder. | 1710 |
Take Virginy Snake root, Zedoary, Gentian, Elecampane, each 5 grains; Oil of Nutmeg 1 drop, make a Powder.
| Capillary Powder. | 1710 |
Take roots of Orris 1 ounce; Male Piony half an ounce; Spanish Angelica 2 drams; yellow Sanders, Nutmeg, Mace, Cloves, each half a dram; Liquid Storax, Balsam of Peru, each 4 grains; Oil of Rosemary, ...
| Cardialgic Powder. | 1710 |
Take soft white Chalk (wash'd in Rose Water) half an ounce; Crabs Eyes, Liquorice, white Sugar, each 4 scruples; Oil of Nutmeg, Cloves, each 2 drops; make it up for 8 Doses.
| Carminative Powder. | 1710 |
Take Seeds of Anise and sweet Fennel, each 26 grains; Nutmeg, Cinnamon, each 18 grains; long Pepper, Cloves, each 6 grains; Mastick 1 scruple, mix for 6 Doses.
| Carminative Powder. | 1785 |
Take of coriander seed, half an ounce; ginger, one drachm; nutmegs, half a drachm; fine sugar, a drachm and a half. Reduce them into powder for twelve doses.
| Cephalic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Powder de Gutteta, native Cinnaber prepared, each half an ounce, mix.
| Chalybeate Powder. | 1710 |
Take rust of Iron powder'd and searced 8 scruples; Salt of Steel, Saffron, Ginger, each 1 scruple; Aniseed 5 scruples; Mace 4 scruples; white Sugar 10 scruples, make all into a Powder for 20 Doses.
| Comfrey Powder compound. | 1710 |
Take the root of Comfrey that bears a red flower, Mouse Flesh dried in an Oven, Hogs claw, Bucks priapus, each as much as you please, make a powder of all and mix.
| Common Cathartic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Rosin of Jalap, Scammony prepared; each 5 grains; Senna, Cream of Tartar, each half a scruple; Oil of Cloves 1 drop, mix.
| Damask Powder. | 1710 |
Take roots of Orris 1 pound; Calamus aromatic, Cypcrus, each 4 ounces; Marjoram 1 ounce; Damask Roses, Nutmeg, Cloves, Storax calamite, Benjamin, Labdanum, each 2 ounces; make all into a gross Powder.
| Dentalgic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Tobacco 1 scruple; Ginger, Flower of Sulphur, each half a scruple; mix.
| Diaphoretic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Virginia Snake root, Spanish Angelica root, Contrayerva, each 5 grains; Myrrh 3 grains; Saffron 2 grains, mix.
| Diuretic Powder. | 1785 |
Take of gum arabic, four ounces; purified nitre, one ounce. Pound them together, and divide the whole into twenty-four doses.
| Edulcorating Powder. | 1710 |
Take Lemnian Earth 1 scruple; red Coral, Crabs Eyes, Egg and Oister-shells,each 5 grains; powder and mix all.
| Emmenagogue Powder. | 1710 |
Take Venetian Borace 15 grains, Myrrh 12 grains, Saffron 3 grains, Oyl of Cloves 1 drop, mix.
| Epidemial Powder. | 1710 |
Take Troches of Vipers 1 dram, Virginia Snake-root, Contrayerva, each half a dram mix.
| Eye-Bright Powder compound. | 1710 |
Take Eye-bright 3 drams, Mace 1 dram, make it into a fine Powder.
| Eye-bright Powder more compound. | 1710 |
Take Eye-bright half an ounce, sweet Fennelseed 2 drams, Mace, Nutmeg each 1 dram, White Sugar 1 ounce. Make all into Powder.
| Febrisic Powder. | 1710 |
The Salt of Wormwood half a dram, Diaphoretic Antimony, I dram, Camomile-flowers 2 drams and a half. Make a Powder for 8 Doses, to be taken every 3 or 4 hours between Fits.
| Gum Lac Powder compound. | 1710 |
Take Gum Lac 2 drams; astringent Crocus of Mars 3 drams; Dragons Blood 1 dram; make of it a subtile Powder.
| hemoptoic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Seeds of Henbane, White Poppy each 2 drams, Sealed Earth, Hematites each 1 dram, Sugar of Roses 6 drams mix.
| hibernic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Irish Slate 15 grains; Salt of Amber 3 grains; Salt of Harts horn 2 grains; Oil of Nutmeg 1 drop, mix.
| hysteric Powder. | 1710 |
Take roots of white Bryony 1 dram; Piony rose bearing a white flower 2 drams; Castor 2 scruples; Salt of Amber 1 scruple; Oil of Amber 4 drops, make a Powder.
| I. Diuretic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Prunel Stone 1 dram; Egg shells calcined 2 scruples; Salt of Amber 1 scruple; white Sugar 2 drams, make it into Powder.
| Incrassating Powder. | 1710 |
Take marsh Mallow root, Gum Arabic, Dragons Blood, Liquorice, each 5 grains; beat all into a fine Powder.
| Laxative Powder. | 1710 |
Take Senna and Cream of Tartar, each as much as you will, and reduce them into a Powder.
| Marjoram Powder compound. | 1710 |
Take Marjoram, Arabian Stechas flowers, each 5 grains; Nutmeg 3 grains; Mustard seed 2 grains; Oil Sassaphras 1 drop, make all into Powder.
| Mastic Powder compound. | 1710 |
Take Mastic, Olibanum, Japanic Earth, Flower of Sulphur, each 5 grains; Sugar candy 1 scruple; powder all. Its of egregious use in a Catarrh, and emulates the Electuary of Mastic.
| Mayerns Powder de Gutteta. | 1710 |
Take Male Piony-root, Seed of the same, White Amber, Crystal, Harts-horn vitriolated each 3 drams, Humane Cranium both crude and vitriolated each half an ounce, Calamus aromatic, Misselto of the Oak, ...
| Myrrh Powder compound. | 1710 |
Take Myrrh, Savine, Grains of Paradise, each 5 grains; Saffron 3 grains; Castor 2 grains; Oil of Amber 1 drop, make a Powder.
| Nephritic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Smalage and Saxifrage roots, each 2 drams; Crabs Eyes I dram; vitriolated Tartar, Prunel stone, each 2 scruples; Cream of Tartar 4 scruples; Oil of Juniper 4 drops, make all into a Powder.
| Nitrous Powder. | 1710 |
Take Prunel stone 1 dram and half; Cinnaber of Antimony half a dram; white Sugar half an ounce; reduce all to a Powder.
| Nutmeg Powder compound. | 1710 |
Take Nutmegs half an ounce; Cinnamon 2 drams; Mace, Cloves Marjoram, Betony, Rosemary, Lavender flowers, each 1 dram, make all into a Powder.
| Odoriferous Powder. | 1710 |
Take Rhodium Wood half an ounce, yellow Sanders, Damask Roses, Florentine Orris, each 2 drams; Spanish Angelica root 4 scruples; Mace half a dram; Apoplectic Balsam half a scruple; Oil of Cloves 6 dro...
| Orange peel Powder compound. | 1710 |
Take the thin yellow peel of Orange, Cummin seed, each 12 grains; Castor 5 grains; long Pepper 1 grain; Oil of Juniper I drop, make a Powder.
| Panchymagagogue Powder. | 1710 |
Take Cream of Tartar half an ounce; Senna 1 ounce; Rhubarb 6 drams; Scammony 2 drams; Mace half an ounce; beat all up to a Powder.
| Peacock Powder. | 1710 |
Take the white part of Peacocks Dung 15 grains; Salt of Amber 5 grains; Oil of Nutmeg 1 drop; reduce them to a Powder.
| Pearl Powder compound. | 1710 |
Take Pearl Oriental, white Coral, each half an ounce; Crabs Eyes 1 ounce; levigate them into an absolute Alcohol, on a Marble.
| Pectoral Powder. | 1710 |
Take Sulphur vive, Florentine Orris, Liquorice, Aniseed, each 5 grains; Sugar candy 1 scruple; make these into Powder.
| Peptic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Seeds of Coriander half an ounce; Anise, swees Fennel, each 4 scruple; Nutmeg half a dram; Cinnamon, Cloves, each I scruple; long Pepper half a scruple, white Sugar 1 ounce, of these make a Powde...
| Piony Powder compound. | 1710 |
Take Male Piony root, Humane Cranium, each 5 grains; native Cinnaber half a scruple; Oil of Nutmeg 1 drop; bring it to a Powder.
| Pleuritic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Olibanum half a scruple; Crabs Eyes, Flower of Sulphur, each 5 grains; reduce them to a Powder.
| Powder against Haemorrhagies. | 1710 |
Take Astringent Crocus of Mars half a scruple; Dragons Blood 5 grains; Alum 3 grains; Sugar of Lead 2 grains, make all into Powder.
| Powder for a Bruise. | 1710 |
Take Irish Slate, Mumy, each 12 grains; Salt of Amber, Salt of Harts born, each 3 grains, mix.
| Powder for The Tape-worm. | 1785 |
Early in the morning the patient is to take in any liquid, two or three drachms, according to his age and constitution, of the root of the male fern reduced into a fine powder. About two hours afterwa...
| Powder in an hernia. | 1710 |
Take of Solomon's Seal and Comfrey Roots, Aniseed, each 1 dram; make a Powder.
| Powder of Angelica compound. | 1710 |
Take Spanish Angelica root 5 grains; Japanic Earth 15 grains; Species of Hyacinth half a scruple; Oil of Cinnamon 1 drop, make all into Powder.
| Powder of Bole. | 1785 |
Take of bole armenic, or French bole, two ounces; cinnamon, one ounce; tormentil root and gum arabic, of each six drachms; long pepper, one drachm. Let all these ingredients be reduced into a powder.
| Powder of Crabs Eyes compound. | 1710 |
Take Crabs Eyes ground on a Marble 1 dram; Cream of Tartar half a dram; Salt of Wormwood, Prunel, each 12 grains; Salt of Amber 6 grains; make all into a Powder for 6 Doses, to be given twice or thric...
| Powder of Millepedes compound. | 1710 |
Take Millepedes prepared 12 grains; Saffron 3 grains; Flower of Benjamin, Salt of Amber, each 2 grains; Ginger 1 grain; Oil of Aniseed 1 drop; Bring all to a Powder.
| Purging Worm-Powder. | 1785 |
Take of powdered rhubarb, a scruple; scammony and calomel, of each five grains. Rub them together in a mortar for one dose.
| Saline Laxative Powder. | 1785 |
Take of soluble tartar, and cream of tartar, each one drachm; purified nitre, half a drachm. Make them into a powder.
| Schroder's Dentrifice. | 1710 |
Take powder of Tiles half an ounce; moisten it, at several times, with Oil of Tartar, 'till it hath imbibed its own Weight, and bring it to the consistence of Paste, then add white Tartar 3 drams; Bre...
| Splanchnic Powder. | 1710 |
Take Ashtree rind half a scruple; Rhubarb 5 grains; Spikenard, Saffron, each 2 grains; long Pepper 1 grain; make them into a Powder. To which may Chalybeats be added, pro re nata.
| Steel Powder. | 1785 |
Take filings of steel, and loaf-sugar, of each two ounces; ginger, two drachms. Pound them together.
| Sternutatory Powder. | 1710 |
Take Florentine Orris 1 scruple; white Hellebore half a scruple; Oil of Nutmeg 1 drop, make a Powder.
| Stomach Powder. | 1710 |
Take Spanish Angelica root, Mint, Cinnamon, each 1 scruple; Mace 12 grains; Balaustines long Pepper, each 4 grains; Oil Wormwood 1 drop; white loaf Sugar 4 scruples; make all into a Powder for 4 Doses...
| Sudorific Powder. | 1785 |
Take purified nitre and vitriolated tartar, of each half an ounce; opium and ipecacuanha, of each one drachm. Mix the ingredients, and reduce them to a fine powder.
| Tartar Powder compound. | 1710 |
Take Cream of Tartar 5 drams; Balaustines 1 dram; Spirit of Vitriol enough to make it pretty tart, mix up a Powder.
| The Womans Powder. | 1710 |
Take Astringent Crocus of Steel half a scruple; Spikenard, Species of Hyacinth, each 5 grains, bring all into a fine Powder. Its of great Service to correct the laxity of the Uterus, hinder a Flux of ...
| Tilingius his Powder. | 1710 |
Take Crystals of Tartar, Pearch stone, Crabs Eyes, each 1 dram; Salt of Amber half a dram; white Sugar 3 drams and half; make a Powder adding Oil of Aniseed 5 drops.
| Uvular Powder. | 1710 |
Take Japanic Earth, Balaustines, each 1 scruple; Alnm, long Pepper, each half a scruple, Powder and mix.
| Viper Powder compound. | 1710 |
Take Troches of Vipers (or rather flesh dry'd) 15 grains; Salt of Amber 3 grains; Saffron 2 grains; make a Powder.
| Worm-Powders. | 1785 |
Take of tin reduced into a fine powder, an ounce; AEthiop's mineral, two drachms. Mix them well together, and divide the whole into six doses.
Ptisan
| Ptisan. | 1710 |
Take Quich Grass roots 3 ounces; Liquorice, shavings of Harts horn and Ivory, each 2 drams; Raisins of the Sun 1 ounce and half; boil in depurated Barly water 3 pints to 1 quart; in the strain'd liquo...
Quilt
| 1. Stomach Quilt. | 1710 |
Take Spanish Angelica root, Aromatic Reed, each 1 dram and half; dried Mint, Wormwood, each 2 drams; Seeds of Coriander and Caraway, each 1 dram; Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Mace, Cloves, Storax calamite, Benja...
| 2. Stomach Powder. | 1710 |
Take Florentine Orris, Aromatic Reed, each 2 drams; Cubebs, Nutmeg, Mace, Cloves, Calamite Storax, Benjamin, each 1 dram; Oil of Caraway, Mint, Rhodium, each 2 drops; Oil of Wormwood 1 drop; powder gr...
| A Cardiac Quilt. | 1710 |
Take Spanish Angelica root, Calamus aromatic, each half an ounce; yellow Sanders, Lavender flowers, Saffron, Caraway seed, Cloves, Mace, Benjamin, Storax calamite, each half a dram; make all into a gr...
| A Pectoral Quilt. | 1710 |
Take yellow Sanders, Florentine Orris, Calamus aromatic, each 2 drams; Lavender flowers, Coriander seed, Nutmeg, Mace Benjamin, Storax calamite, each 1 dram; Oil of Aniseed, Cloves, each 3 drops, brin...
| A Quilt for a Cap. | 1710 |
Take Male Piony root 2 drams; Spanish Angelica root 1 dram; Florentine Orris, Lavender flowers, each half a dram; Arabian Stechas flowers 1 dram; Cloves, Nutmeg, Mace, each 1 scruple; Storax calamite,...
Rob
| Rob of Acacia. | 1710 |
Take Sloes (not fully ripe) as many as you please; stew them in warm water till soft; pass them through a pulping Sieve; evaporate away the superfluous humidity; then add half its weight of fine Sugar...
Simple Distilled Water
| Cinnamon Water. | 1785 |
Steep one pound of cinnamon bark, bruised, in a gallon and a half of water, and one pint of brandy, for two days; and then distil off one gallon.
| Jamaica Pepper Water. | 1785 |
Take of Jamaica pepper, half a pound; water, a gallon and a half. Distil off one gallon.
| Pennyroyal Water. | 1785 |
Take of pennyroyal leaves, dried, a pound and a half; water, from a gallon and a half to two gallons. Draw off by distillation one gallon.
| Peppermint Water. | 1785 |
This is made in the same manner as the preceding.
| Rose Water. | 1785 |
Take of roses fresh gathered, six pounds; water, two gallons. Distil off one gallon.
| Spearmint Water. | 1785 |
This may also be prepared in the same way as the Pennyroyal water.
Spirit
| Antiscorbutic Spirit. | 1710 |
Take bark of Guaiacum 7 ounces, Orange-peel 5 ounces, Juniper-berries 1 pound, Daucus-seed 6 ounces, Sugar 6 pound, Spring-water 25 quarts, Yeast as much as needs: Let it stand fermenting 12 days; aft...
| Spirit of Caraway compound. | 1710 |
Take French Brandy 1 quart; Caraway comfits half a pound, Species of Aromaticum Rosatum, and Galcns Letisic, each 2 scruples; having let them stand macerating 14 days, strain, and add Musk and Ambergr...
| Spirit of Wine rectify'd without heat. | 1710 |
Take good Brandy 10 ounces; Salt of Tartar calcined high 4 ounces; shake 'em well together in a Glass-bottle; so will the salt imbibe the phlegm of the Spirit, and sink to the bottom, and the limpid y...
Spirituous Distilled Water
| Alum Whey. | 1785 |
BOIL two drachms of powdered alum in a pint of milk till it is curdled; then strain out the whey.
| Mustard Whey. | 1785 |
Take milk and water, of each a pint; bruised mustard seed, an ounce and a half. Boil them together till the curd is perfectly separated; afterwards strain the whey through a cloth.
| Scorbutic Whey. | 1785 |
This whey is made by boiling half a pint of the scorbutic juices in a quart of cow's milk. More benefit, however, is to be expected from eating the plants, than from their expressed juices.
| Spirituous Cinnamon Water. | 1785 |
TAKE of cinnamon, one pound; proof spirit, and common water, of each one gallon. Steep the cinnamon in the liquor for two days; then distil off one gallon.
| Spirituous Jamaica Pepper Water. | 1785 |
Take of Jamaica pepper, half a pound; proof spirit, three gallons; water, two gallons. Distil off three gallons.
Stone
| Alexiterial Stone. | 1710 |
Take Amber, red Coral each half a dram; diaphoretic Antimony, Contrayerva root, Crabseyes, each 1 dram; Crabs-claws half an ounce; levigate all upon a Marble, till it be an exquisitely fine, and impal...
Sudorifick
| Salt Volatile Sudorifick. | 1710 |
Take Spirit of Treacle camphorated 10 ounces; Volatil Sulphureous, Spirit of Vitriol rectify'd (which see in Collectan. Chym.p.491.) 3 ounces; Spirit of Tartar, Spirit of Salt Armoniac each 2 ounces a...
Sugar
| Dur Sugar of Pearl. | 1710 |
Take white Sugar-candy powdered, and searced 3 ounces; Pearl prepared 1 ounce: Make it into a subtile Powder.
Suppository
| Suppositories. | 1710 |
Take common Salt (or Salt Gem.) powdered Aloes (or Species of Hiera) each half a dram; Hony boiled up to a just consistence (that is, 'til 'twill not stick to, and dawb the fingers) as much as suffici...
Syrup
| Asthmatic Syrup. | 1710 |
It's made after the same manner with Ammoniacum; only Syrup of Fox-glove-flowers is used, instead of the white Syrup.
| Balsamic Syrup. | 1710 |
Take Balsam of Tolu 6 drams, boil it (without scumming) In Spring (or fine Barly) water 20 ounces, to 12 ounces; then add treble refined Sugar 1 pound, and without any further boiling, as soon as 'tis...
| Chalybeate Syrup. | 1710 |
Take white Wine 1 pint and half; filings of Iron 1 ounce and half; powdered white Tartar 6 drams; Cinnamon, Nutmeg each 1 dram and half; Mace, Cloves, each half a dram; make a warm infusion 4 days in ...
| Diuretic Syrup. | 1710 |
Take Arsmart-water 1 quart; Prunella-stone 2 ounces; white Sugar 2 pound; boil it up to a Syrup.
| Dur Syrup of Ammoniacum. | 1710 |
Take gum Ammoniacum, not strain'd, half an ounce; dissolve it in Water 1 ounce; strain, and join it according to Art, with white Syrup 11 ounces.
| Incrassating Syrup. | 1710 |
Take Plantain-water 1 pint; Gum Arabic 1 ounce and half; dissolve at the Fire; and add fine Sugar 1 pound: Make it into a Syrup.
| Mr. Boyle's Syrup. | 1710 |
Take Comfry-roots 6 ounces; Plantain-leaves 12 handfuls cut, beat, and strain out the Juice; to which add an equal weight of Sugar, and boil it up to a Syrup.
| Simple syrup. | 1785 |
Is made by dissolving in water, either with or without heat, about double its weight of fine sugar.
| Syrup of Elecampane. | 1710 |
Take Roots of Elecampane, Polypodium, Currants each 2 ounces; Liquorice half an ounce; Virginia Tobacco dry'd two drams; Colts-foot, spotted Lungwort, Savory, Calamint each 1 handful; boil then in sim...
| Syrup of Garlic. | 1710 |
Take Garlic (peel'd, and cut into pieces) Aniseed bruis'd, each half an ounce; Elecampane-root 3 drams; Liquorice 2 drams; Brandy 1 pint and half; stop it up close, and give it a warm digestion, two o...
| Syrup of hounds-tongue. | 1710 |
Take juice of Hounds-tongue (clarify'd by coction) and fine Sugar each 1 pound and half; boil it up to a Syrup.
| Syrup of Liquorice. | 1710 |
Take sweet Tincture, Hony each one pint; Oil of Aniseed 8 drops: Make a Syrup.
| Syrup of Mallows. | 1710 |
Take the Magistrale Decoction of Mallows 1 pint; fine Sugar I pound: Make a Syrup.
| Syrup of Moss. | 1710 |
Take Moss (call'd Oak-Lungs) 4 handfuls; Comfry-root 6 ounces; Malaga Raisins ston'd 2 ounces; Liquorice 3 drams; Balsam of Tolu 2 drams; boil in Hydromel simple to 1 pint and a half; and with Sugar s...
| Syrup of Myrrh. | 1710 |
Take Myrrh 2 drams (or at most half an ounce) grind it with brown Sugar-candy 4 ounces; dissolve it in hard boiled whites of Eggs (just as Oil of Myrrh by deliquium is prepared).
| Syrup of Salt of Steel. | 1710 |
Take Succory-water 8 ounces; Salt of Steel powdered 2 drams; melt it thoroughly over the Fire in a glaz'd Vessel, then set it by two days, that its Crocus may be precipitated; which done, decant the p...
| The White Syrup. | 1710 |
Take pure Fountain-water 1 quart; fine Sugar 3 pound; boil (and scum it well) into a Syrup.
Tincture
| A Martial Tincture. | 1710 |
Take salt of Mars of Riverius (described cap. de Melanch. Hypoch.) soluble Tartar (of which see Collect. Chymic. Leydens.p.444.) each half an ounce; expose them in a Cellar to the Air, till melted; th...
| Alexiterial Tincture. | 1710 |
Take Virginia Snake-wort, Contrayerva, Spanish Angelica- roots, and Venice-Treacle each half an ounce; Myrrh 2 drams; Saffron 4 scruples; Cochineal 2 scruples; Tincture of Salt of Tartar 1 pint; diges...
| An Epileptic Tincture. | 1710 |
Take Russia Castor half an ounce; yellow Amber powdered, English Saffron of each two drams; fresh Flowers of Lily of the Valley one ounce; to these pout Salt Volatile Sudorifick (before described) ten...
| Antiphthisic Tincture. | 1710 |
Take Sugar of Lead, and Vitriol of Mars powdered each 1 ounce; rectified Spirit of Wine 4 ounces; set it by till it extract a red Tincture, which filtre.
| Balsamic Tincture. | 1710 |
Take Balm of Gilead, of Capive, Peru, and Tolu each 2 drams; Spirit of Wine rectify'd half a pint; digest in Balneo 2 days, and filtre.
| Purging Cephalic Tincture. | 1710 |
Take Senna half an ounce; Rhubarb, Agaric ty'd up, species of Hiera, each 2 scruples; white Wine 1 pint, macerate and strain.
| Purging Tincture. | 1710 |
Take Senna 3 ounces; Rhubarb 1 ounce; Scammony 4 scruples; Brandy 2 quarts; digest.
| Stomachic Tincture. | 1710 |
Take Cinamon 2 drams; Mace, Nutmeg, each 1 dram and half; Cloves 45 grains; grains of Paradise 1 scruple; yellow paring of Orange peel not dry'd 1 dram; Saffron 2 scruples; Cochineal 15 grains; Tinctu...
| Stomatic Tincture. | 1710 |
Take Gum Lac Powder'd half an ounce; burnt Alum 1 dram; small spirit of Scurvy grass 8 ounces; stop up close in a glass Bottle, digest till a good Tincture appear, and warily decant.
| Sweet Tincture. | 1710 |
Take Spanish juice of Liquorice cut thin one ounce; Cochineal 2 scruples; Canary wine one quart, digest. To these may be added Saffron one dram.
| Tincture of Gentian. | 1710 |
Take Gentian sliced thin 4 ounces; Canary wine 1 quart; digest 3 days cold, and pour it thro' a Strainer:
| Tincture of Rhubarb. | 1710 |
Take Rhubarb sliced thin 2 ounces; Brandy 1 quart; infuse cold.
Tinctures, Elixirs et cetera
| Acid Elixir of Vitriol. | 1785 |
Take of the aromatic tincture, one pint; oil of vitriol, three ounces. Mix them gradually, and after the faeces have subsided, filter the elixir through paper, in a glass funnel.
| Aromatic Tincture. | 1785 |
Infuse two ounces of Jamaica pepper in two pints of brandy, without heat, for a few days; then strain off the tincture.
| Astringent Tincture. | 1785 |
Digest two ounces of gum kino, in a pint and a half of brandy, for eight days; afterwards strain it for use.
| Camphorated Spirit of Wine. | 1785 |
Dissolve an ounce of camphor in a pint of rectified spirits.
| Compound Tincture of Senna. | 1785 |
Take of senna, one ounce; jalap, coriander seeds, and cream of tartar, of each half an ounce. Infuse them in a pint and a half of French brandy for a week; then strain the tincture, and add to it four...
| Compound Tincture of the Bark. | 1785 |
Take of Peruvian bark, two ounces; Seville orange-peel and cinnamon, of each half an ounce. Let the bark be powdered, and the other ingredients bruised; then infuse the whole in a pint and a half of b...
| Paregoric Elixir. | 1785 |
Take of flowers of benzoin, half an ounce; opium, two drachms. Infuse in one pound of the volatile aromatic spirit, for four or five days, frequently shaking the bottle; afterwards strain the elixir.
| Sacred Elixir. | 1785 |
Take of rhubarb cut small, ten drachms; succotorine aloes, in powder, six drachms; lesser cardamom seeds, half an ounce; French brandy, two pints. Infuse for two or three days, and then strain the eli...
| Spirit of Mindererus. | 1785 |
Take of volatile sal ammoniac, any quantity. Pour on it gradually distilled vinegar, till the effervescence ceases.
| Stomachic Elixir. | 1785 |
Take of gentian root, two ounces; Curassao oranges, one ounce; Virginian snake-root, half an ounce. Let the ingredients be bruised, and infused for three or four days, in two pints of French brandy; a...
| Tincture of Black Hellebore. | 1785 |
Infuse two ounces of the roots of black hellebore, bruised, in a pint of proof spirit, for seven or eight days; then filter the tincture through paper. A scruple of cochineal may be infused along with...
| Tincture of Myrrh and Aloes. | 1785 |
Take of gum myrrh, an ounce and a half; hepatic aloes, one ounce. Let them be reduced to a powder, and infused in two pints of rectified spirits, for six days, in a gentle heat; then strain the tinctu...
| Tincture of Opium; or Liquid Laudanum. | 1785 |
Take of crude opium, two ounces; spirituous aromatic water, and mountain wine, of each ten ounces. Dissolve the opium, sliced, in the wine, with a gentle heat, frequently stirring it; afterwards add t...
| Tincture of Rhubarb. | 1785 |
Take of rhubarb, two ounces and a half; lesser cardamom seeds, half an ounce; brandy, two pints. Digest for a week, and strain the tincture.
| Tincture of Spanish Flies. | 1785 |
Take of Spanish flies, reduced to a fine powder, two ounces; spirit of wine, one pint. Infuse for two or three days; then strain off the tincture.
| Tincture of the Balsam of Tolu. | 1785 |
Take of the balsam of Tolu, an ounce and a half; rectified spirit of wine, a pint. Infuse in a gentle heat until the balsam is dissolved; then strain the tincture.
| Volatile foetid Tincture. | 1785 |
Infuse two ounces of asafoetida in one pint of volatile aromatic spirit, for eight days, in a close bottle, frequently shaking it; then strain the tincture.
| Volatile Tincture of Gum Guaiacum. | 1785 |
Take of gum guaiacum, four ounces; volatile aromatic spirit, a pint. Infuse without heat in a vessel, well stopped, for a few days; then strain off the tincture. A very good tincture of guaiacum, for ...
Tobacco
| A Tobacco for Catarrhs. | 1710 |
Take Pistachio peels 6 drams; Tobacco 2 drams; Coltsfoot 1 ounce; oil of Aniseed 8 drops; cut and mix.
| A Tobacco for Consumptions. | 1710 |
Take Pistachio peels 3 drams; dry'd Hyssop white Horebound, Rosa solis each 2 drams, Auripigment, Tobacco, each half an ounce; reduce all into an exquisitely fine Powder; which grind upon a Marble wit...
Unguent
| 1. Pleuritic Ungent. | 1710 |
Take Unguent of Marsh Mallows 1 ounce; Linseed Oil half an ounce; Oil of Cummin half a dram; Camphire half a scruple: mix.
| 2. Pleuritic Unguent. | 1710 |
Take Althea Ointment 1 ounce; Oil of sweet Almonds 3 drams; Camphir 1 scruple; spirit of Salt Armoniac 1 dram: mix.
| A Frontal Unguent. | 1710 |
Take Unguent of Alabaster 1 dram and half; Oil of Mace by expression 1 scruple; Opium (dissolv'd in a little Rose water) half a scruple, mix.
| Aloetic Unguent. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Aloes 2 drams; Scammony, Troches of Alhandal, each half a dram; Oxe Gall 1 dram; Butter as much as needs. Make an Unguent.
| An Erysipelas Unguent. | 1710 |
Take juice of Elder leaves (or rinds) Linseed Oil, each 2 ounces; boil to the consumption of the Juice, and then add powder'd Litharge as much as serves to make it up into an Unguent.
| Aperitive Unguent. | 1710 |
Take Oil of Lilies, and of Thamarisk, each two Ounces; Juice of white Bryony roots, and Smalage, each one Ounce: Boil to the Consumption of the Juices, and adding Ointment of Marsh-Mallows, fresh Butt...
| Cordial Unguent. | 1710 |
Take Orange flower butter, Palm Oil, each 2 drams; Apoplectic Balsam 1 scruple; Oil of Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmeg, each 4 drops, mix.
| Crinisic Unguent. | 1710 |
Take Bees burnt, Mouse dung, each half an ounce; Balsam of Peru 2 drams; Honey as much as sufficient. Make an Unguent.
| hemorrhoidal Unguent. | 1710 |
Take Populeon Ointment 1 ounce; Oil of Amber 2 drams, mix.
| Pectoral Unguent. | 1710 |
Take yellow Wax 6 drams; Sperma Ceti, Oil of Mace express'd wach 2 drams; Oil of sweet Almonds 3 ounces; Oil of Nutmeg 16 drops; Oil of Cloves 8 drops: Mix.
| Podagric Unguent. | 1710 |
Take black Soap 4 ounces; Barbadoes Tar, Hony each 1 ounce and half; and the white of one Egg: Mix.
| Renale Unguent. | 1710 |
Take Ointment of Poplar 1 ounce and half; Oil of Scorpions, Juice of Limon each half an ounce; Opium 1 scruple; Camphir half a scruple: Make an Unguent, to be us'd to the Reins, in a Nephritic Fit.
| Saponaceous Unguent. | 1710 |
Take Castile Soap 1 ounce and half; Oil of Tartar by deliquium 1 ounce; Fuller's Earth 3 drams; roots of white and black Hellebore each 1 dram and half; Elder Ointment (prepar'd with a mixture of Broo...
| Splanchnic Unguent. | 1710 |
Take Dialthea Unguent 2 ounces; gum Ammoniacum strain'd half an ounce; Oil of Juniper 20 drops; mix according to Art.
| Splenetic Unguent. | 1710 |
Take gum Ammoniacum strain'd, half an ounce; Labdanum 2 drams; Hens-grease 1 ounce; Oil of Roses 4 ounces; juice of Hemlock 3 ounces; boil to the consumption of the Juice; at last, add (when it growet...
| Stomachic Unguent. | 1710 |
Take fine Venice Turpentine, spirits of Salt Armoniac, each I dram; Wax, Oil of Juniper each 2 drams; oil of Cloves 1 dram; oil of Mint 2 scruples; oil of Wormwood 1 scruple, mix with art. Its an eleg...
| Unguent de Bills. | 1710 |
Take white Ointment half an ounce; Camphire (ground with a few drops of Oil of Almonds) Flower of Sulphur, each 24 grains; Flower of Benjamin 12 grains; Queen of Hungary's Water 40 drops; Oil of Rhodi...
| Unguent for shrinking of the Sinews. | 1710 |
Take Nerve Ointment 1 ounce; Neats-foot Oil, Oil of Earth- worms, Bullocks-fat Marrow (that droppeth out of a boil'd Marrow- bone) each half an ounce; fine Turpentine 2 drams; liquid Storax, Sperma Ce...
| Unguent for the Stone. | 1710 |
Take Ointment of Marsh Mallows 1 ounce; Oil of Turpentine and Anise each 1 scruple, mix.
| Unguent to drive back Milk. | 1710 |
Take powder'd Alum half an ounce; Butter 2 ounces; Wax 2 drams, mix.
Vapour
| A Diuretic Vapour. | 1710 |
Take Horse Radish root pounded 8 ounces, put it into a Bottle with strong Beer 2 quarts; stop it up close, boil it in a Kettle of water, and then putting it in a Close-stool-chair, fit over it, as hot...
| A Pectoral Vapour. | 1710 |
Take Balsam of Tolu, Benjamin, each 2 drams; Hyssop, Penny- royal, each 1 handful; Aniseed half an ounce; boil in Milk 3 pints to 1 quart, at last add spirit of Salt Armoniac 2 drams, mix.
| A Vapour for a Quinsy. | 1710 |
Take Pepper powder'd 1 ounce; Milk 1 quart, boil it to 1 pint and a half; put it into a glass Bottle with a small neck, and let the Reek be receiv'd, as hot as can be endur'd, with open Mouth.
| A Vapour for the Ear. | 1710 |
Take Hellebore roots both white and black, of each one ounce; each one ounce; Juniper and Bayberries of each 6 drams; Cummin-seed half an ounce; Rue, Wormwood, Camomile flowers, each I handful; Water ...
| A Vapour for the hemorrhoids. | 1710 |
Take Mullein, Henbane, each 4 handfuls, boilin Water 4 quarts to 3 quarts, and let the Vapour be received hot thro' a perforated Chair.
Vinegar
| Vinegar of Litharge. | 1785 |
Take of litharge, half a pound; strong vinegar, two pints. Infuse them together in a moderate heat for three days, frequently shaking the vessel; then filter the liquor for use.
| Vinegar of Roses. | 1785 |
Take of red roses, half a pound; strong vinegar, half a gallon. Infuse in a close vessel for several weeks, in a gentle heat; and then strain off the liquor.
| Vinegar of Squills. | 1785 |
Take of dried squills, two ounces; distilled vinegar, two pints. Infuse for ten days or a fortnight in a gentle degree of heat, afterwards strain off the liquor, and add to it about a twelfth part its...
Wafer
| Wafers of Tamarinds. | 1710 |
Take Tamarinds 1 ounce; them in a Mortar with thin Mucilage of Gum Dragant, pass them thro' a pulping Sieve, dissolve also Spanish juice of Liquorice in the same sort of Mucilage 2 drams; mix, and mak...
Water
| Burdock water compound. | 1710 |
Take Roots of Burdock, Avens, Tormentil, Hounds tongue fresh gathered, each 4 ounces; Herbs of Ragwort, Herb Robert, Plantain, Celandine, Agrimony, Speedwel, Groung Ivy, Housteek, each 2 handfuls; see...
| Chalybeate Water. | 1710 |
Take clean Filings of Needles, and white Tartar powder'd, each 4 ounces; Spring water 1 gallon; stir it well together, and either let it stand cold 14 days; or (if you want it sooner) digest it three ...
| Horse-dung Water. | 1710 |
Take Brooklime, Water Cresses, Harts tongue each 3 handfuls; juicy Orange peels 3; Nutmeg 6 drams; succulent fresh Horse dung 3 pound; Whey 9 pints; juice of Scabions, Dandelion and Hyssop water, each...
| Juniper Water compound. | 1710 |
Take Juniper berries well bruised 12 ounces; Seeds of Anise, Caraway, Coriander, each one ounce; Brandy 6 quarts; Water (boil'd half away) 2 quarts; decrepitated Salt 4 ounces. Distil in an Alembic ac...
| Pectoral Snail Water. | 1710 |
Take Snails beaten to mash with their Shells 3 pound; Crumb of white Bread new bak'd 12 ounces; Nutmeg 6 drams; Ground-Ivy 6 handfuls, Whey 3 quarts; distil it in a cold Still, without burning.
| Scelotyrbic Water. | 1710 |
Take Horse Radish and Arum roots, Orange-peel, each 3 ounces; Scurvygrass, Arsmart, each 6 handfuls; Water-cresses, Brooklime, Sage, Mint, each 3 handfuls; Nutmeg 3 drams; stale strong Beer 6 quarts; ...
| Scorbutic Snail Water. | 1710 |
Take Snails bruis'd with their Shells 3 pound, fresh Orange rinds 3 ounces; Brooklime, Water-cresses, Cleavers each 3 handfuls; Whey 3 quarts distil in a cold Still
| Water of Millepedes. | 1710 |
Take live Millepeds 1 pint and half; fresh Orange and Lemon Peel, each 3 ounces; white Bread 12 ounces; Nutmeg 6 drams; juice of Scabious and Cleavers, each 1 pint; Whey 3 quarts; Make Distillation.
Water by Infusion et cetera
| Compound Lime-Water. | 1785 |
Take shavings of guaiacum wood, half a pound; liquorice root, one ounce; sassafras bark, half an ounce; coriander seeds, three drachms; simple lime-water, six pints.
| Lime-Water. | 1785 |
P0UR two gallons of water gradually upon a pound of fresh burnt quicklime; and when the ebullition ceases, stir them well together; then suffer the whole to stand at rest, that the lime may settIe, an...
| Styptic Water. | 1785 |
Take of blue vitriol and alum, each an ounce and a half; wet water, one pint. Boil them until the salts are dissolved, then filter the liquor and add to it a drachm of the oil of vitriol.
| Sublimate Water. | 1785 |
Dissolve eight grains of the corrosive sublimate in a pint of cinnamon-water.
| Tar Water. | 1785 |
Pour a gallon of water on two pounds of Norway tar, and stir them strongly together with a wooden rod: after they have stood to settle for two days, pour off the water for use.
Whey
| Deoppilating Whey. | 1710 |
Take roots of sharp-pointed Dock and Polypodium each 4 ounces; Herbs liverwort, Agrimony, Succory, Hop tops each 2 handfuld; Juice of Fumitory 1 pint; Senna 1 ounce; Tamarinds 2 ounces; Whey 3 gallons...
| Purging Whey. | 1710 |
Take white Briony roots 1 ounce; Senna, Agaric each half ounce; infuse in a lukewarmth for a Night, in Whey 1 pint half, in the Morning boil to 1 pint, adding, at last, Caraqay seed half an ounce; Man...
| Scorbutic Whey. | 1710 |
Take Scurvygrass, Plantain each 2 handfuls; Brooklime, Water-cresses, Fumitory, Sorrel each 1 handful; beat them in a marble Mortar, pour to them Whey 1 quart; strain out, and boil till it be well cla...
Wine
| 1. hydropic Wine. | 1710 |
Take Florentine Orris 2 ounces; Elecampane, Squills, each half ounce; Elder and dwarf Elder rind, each 1 ounce; Winters bark 2 drams; Senna 2 ounces; black Hellebore, Agaric, Jalap, each 2 drams; Whit...
| 2. hydropic Wine. | 1710 |
Take dwarf Elder rind, Florentine Orris root, each 2 ounces; inner rind of black Alder dry'd 1 ounce and half; Elecampane, Squills, each half an ounce; Juniper-berries 2 drams and half; Jalap half an ...
| Anthelmintic Wine. | 1785 |
Take of rhubarb, half an ounce; worm-seed, an ounce. Bruise them, and infuse without heat in two pints of red port wine for a few days, then strain off the wine.
| Antimonial Wine. | 1785 |
Take glass of antimony, reduced to fine powder, half an ounce; Lisbon Wine, eight ounces. Digest, without heat, for three or four days, now and then shaking the bottle; afterwards filter the wine thro...
| Bitter Cathartic Wine. | 1710 |
Take bitter Wine 1 pint; Senna 1 ounce; Rhubarb 2 drams; infuse cold, and strain.
| Bitter Chalybeate Wine. | 1710 |
Take bitter Wine, and Chalybeate Wine, each 1 quart, mix.
| Bitter Wine. | 1710 |
Take Whitewine 1 quart; Brandy 4 ounces; Gentian root 4 scruples; tops of Carduus, Centory, Camomile flowers, each 8 scruples; thin yellow Parings of Orange 2 drams; Mace, Nutmegs, Cloves, Cochineal, ...
| Bitter wine. | 1785 |
Take of gentian root, yellow rind of lemon-peel, fresh, each one ounce; long pepper, two drachms; mountain wine, two pints. Infuse without heat for a week, and strain out the wine for use.
| Cathartic Wine. | 1710 |
Take Senna 2 ounces; white Tartar powder'd 8 scruples; White wine 1 quart; Brandy 4 ounces; macerate cold 3 days, and strain.
| Chalybeate or Steel Wine. | 1785 |
Take filings of iron, two ounces; cinnamon and mace, of each two drachms; Rhenish wine, two pints. Infuse for three or four weeks, frequently shaking the bottle; then pass the wine through a filter.
| Chalybeate Wine. | 1710 |
Take clean Filings of Needles (without mixture of Pin-dust) 2 ounces; Juice of 8 sowr Oranges; Let it stand 24 hours, then add White wine 2 quarts; Cinnamon half an ounce; Cloves 2 drams; Mace 4 scrup...
| Diuretic Wine. | 1710 |
Take Whitewine 1 quart; Salt of Wormwood 2 drams, mix.
| Elecampane Wine. | 1710 |
Take green Elecampane root, white Sugar, Currants cut small, each 4 ounces; White wine 2 quarts, infuse cold.
| Icteric Wine. | 1710 |
Take Turmeric powder'd 2 ounces; Saffron 2 scruples; Cochineal 4 scruples; Millepeds 320; Canary wine 2 pints and half, infuse cold.
| Ipecacuanha Wine. | 1785 |
Take of ipecacuanha, in powder, one ounce; mountain wine, a pint. Infuse for three or four days; then filter the tincture.
| Pectoral Wine. | 1710 |
Take Spanish Juice of Liquorice 1 ounce; Saffron 1 scruple; seeds of Coriander, Caraway, Anise, each 2 drams; salt of Tartar half an ounce; Penyroyal and Hyssop Waters each 4 ounces; Canary wine 1 qua...
| Scorbutic Wine. | 1710 |
Take Garden Scurvy-grass (dry gather'd and whole) 1 handful; Horse Radish root scrap'd half an ounce; Winters Bark powder'd grosly 2 drams; Arum water, White wine, each 1 pint. Let them stand cold 3 d...
| Stomach Wine. | 1710 |
Take Roots of Virginia Snake-weed and Gentian each 3 drams; Galengal, Cloves, Cubebs, Mace, Nutmeg, Saffron, each 1 dram; Cochineal half a dram; Canary wine 3 pints: Infuse cold.
| Stomach Wine. | 1785 |
Take of Peruvian bark, grossly powdered, an ounce; cardamon seeds, and orange peel, bruised, of each two drachms. Infuse in a bottle of white port or Lisbon wine for five or six days, then strain off ...
| Wine called Mirabile. | 1710 |
Take Canary (or rather Sherry) wine 1 quart; Cinnamon-water 4 ounces; Cloves, Mace, Nutmeg, Cubebs, Cardamon, Galingal, Cochineal, Saffron, each 1 dram, digest cold and strain.